Mark St. Meadows

We, Robot: Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining favorite science fiction tales to reveal which robots actually exist today--and what's coming tomorrow--"We, Robot" asks: How close to becoming reality are our favorite science fiction robots? And what might be the real-life consequences of their existence?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 192mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781599219431
• ISBN-10: 1599219433
• Artikelnr.: 29957255

Autorenporträt

Mark Stephen Meadows is an author, inventor, and entrepreneur with over fifteen years' experience in digital media. His previous books include I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life and Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative. The co-inventor of four patents relating to artificial intelligence and virtual worlds, he is also the founder of Echo & Shadow and HeadCase Humanufacturing (both companies that relate to artificial intelligence). Meadows is a respected international lecturer on these subjects, having lectured at numerous research centers around the world, and has also spent time at Xerox-PARC and Stanford Research Institute. He has won awards such as the Ars Electronica Golden Nica and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's highest honors.