21st Century Robot

✍ Scribed by Brian David Johnson

• Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson's duties as Intel's futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question. These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers exploring personal robotics as a new form of artificial intelligence. This isn't fanciful speculation. Johnson's stories are based on Intel's futurecasting research, which uses ethnographic field studie.;He builds robots with his mind -- The loneliness of the long-distance robot -- Design -- I_AM_Robot -- The brain -- The machinery of love and grace -- Body -- Murderous little pets -- Build -- How to build a robot -- Seven billion best robots ever.