Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-robot Relationships - Softcover

Levy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715637770 ISBN 13: 9780715637777

Verlag: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2009

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Críticas

'Utterly fascinating' - New Statesman. 'Oddly - very oddly - fascinating ... It's no mean feat just presenting a prediction as outlandish as that as unabashedly as Levy does. But more impressive still is how coherently he backs it up' - Telegraph. 'The idea behind the book - a world in which robots appear to be just like us - is fascinating. It raises important questions about the future of robots. What we might want from them and what our interactions might teach us about ourselves' - New Scientist. 'Will surely rank as the definitive study of such phenomena for years to come' - LA Times book review. 'A controversial and troubling arousing book' - USA Today. 'The safest sex on the planet' - Wired. 'Racy, divertingly illustrated book' - The Guardian.

Reseña del editor

From Pygmalion falling for his chiselled Galatea, to Dr Frankenstein marvelling at his monster, to the man-meets-machine fiction of Philip K Dick and Michael Crichton, humans have been enthralled by the possibilities of emotional relationships with their technological creations. Synthesizing cutting-edge research in robotics with the cultural history and psychology of artificial intelligence, "Love and Sex with Robots" explores this fascination, and its far-reaching implications. Using examples drawn from around the world, David Levy argues that, once we have conditioned ourselves to feel affection for animate creations, the next logical step is physical intimacy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0715637770
• ISBN 13: 9780715637777
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352