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Real Unexplained! Collection Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors, (Paperback)
Author: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 9781578598014
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
Page Count: 304

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January, 2023
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304
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Technology Studies

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Will computers come to dominate man? Will advanced technology, robots and artificial intelligence enhance or destroy our future ... and thereby changing us forever!?! Learn about the history, the menace and opportunities of technology-as well as possible futures--in this one-of-a-kind book!

Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Is it a threat or a benefit? Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors presents the ominous, and some encouraging, stories of how technology has shaped our past and might shape our future. It dives into the question of mankind's future. An exhilarating and troubling read, it looks at whether robots and technology are a threat or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include ...

Robocops and robots in the police force

Robots replacing people in the workplace

The high tech of ancient times

Clones, androids, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots

CIA plots to control our minds

The sentient internet

Monitoring our every move with microchip implants

The threat of unfathomable alien intelligence and technology

The singularity of uncontrollable and irreversible supplanting of human intelligence with technological intelligence

Science fiction and science fact--and how science fiction foreshadowed the future

Clandestine technological dangers and government mind-control plots

Robotic limbs, androids and half-humans

The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality

Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct

And much, much more.

With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of the menace of robots, artificial intelligence, and technology of the past, present, and future. Exciting and worrisome, Runaway Science looks at past horrors and future dangers of technology!

Real Unexplained! Collection Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors, (Paperback)
Author: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 9781578598014
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
Page Count: 304

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Political & Social Sciences

Publication date

January, 2023

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