Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
by Gregory Benford, Elisabeth Malartre
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Author: Elisabeth Malartre, Gregory BenfordEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN: 0765310821
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Forge Books
Book Reviews of Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
Book Review: Neat, but not for enthusiasts.
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
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.
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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.
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This book treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same general phenomenon.
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