Robot
Subtitle: mere machine to transcendent mind
By: by Hans Moravec.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Robotics
Description: In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride packed with startling predictions. He tells us, for instance, that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a period of very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fully automated economy. And eventually, as machines evolve far beyond humanity, robots will supplant us.

But if Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs.
Notes: Includes index.