TALKING TO ROBOTS

If you want to see what that future might look like Duncan s book is a fun place to start NPR Intensely readable downright terrifying and surprisingly uplifting Vanity Fair 5 books not to miss A fascinating work of imaginative futurology USA Today One of Time magazine s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer a riveting read One of David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo s best summer reads on USA Today s Today programme A refreshing variation on the will intelligent robots bring Armageddon genre this colourful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint Kirkus Reviews What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now What do they say about us their creators Will they usher in a fantastic new future or destroy us What do some of our greatest thinkers from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen geneticist George Church and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain anticipate about our human robot future For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology it s also about what robots tell us about being human From present day Facebook and Amazon bot