When Things Start to Think
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: February 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780805058802
Subjects: Social Aspects; Science; Digital electronics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Science / General; Computers and civilization; Experiments & Projects; Artificial intelligence
First sentence: To a species that seeks to communicate, offering instantaneous global connectivity is like wiring the pleasure center of a rat's brain to a bar that the rat then presses over and over until it drops from exhaustion.