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Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

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Authors: Gregory Benford, Elisabeth Malartre
Publisher: Forge Books
Category: Book

List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
Sales Rank: 583679

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1

ISBN: 0765310821
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4834
EAN: 9780765310828
ASIN: 0765310821

Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: excellent condition/new

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will be as unremarkable as the computer screen is now in offices, airports or restaurants. Cyborgs will be less obvious. These additions to the human body are interior now, as rebuilt joints, elbows and hearts. Soon we will cross the line between repair and augmentation, probably first in sports medicine, then spreading to everyone who wants to make a body perform better, last longer, than it ordinarily could. Controversy will arise, but it will not stop the desire to live longer and be stronger than we are. This book treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same general phenomenon.



Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good Overview   April 12, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a well-written comprehensive overview of the coming technological and cultural changes wrought by increases in robot and AI development. It refers to many sci-fi treatments of the subject, since Benford is an accomplished sci fi writer in his own right. Some parts dragged, but overall a good and interesting effort.


3 out of 5 stars Neat, but not for enthusiasts.   July 5, 2008
This book offers a pretty exciting examination of current technologies and their possible future applications, but doesn't go farther than hopeful speculation. The language is not very technically specific, and most of the examples are from sci-fi movies and books.
This book is fun and worth checking out from the library, but I highly recommend that you purchase "The singularity is near" for a more stimulating read.


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