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J**
This book will change your perspective - LOVED IT!
From the opening sentence, "In the future we will all remember when the robots truly arrived" to chapters dedicated to the myriad types of robots of our imminent future, TALKING TO ROBOTS is an engaging, thought-provoking, and extremely well-written book. David Ewing Duncan has written a book about AI that is both entirely accessible to the AI novice and scientifically based and informative for the AI expert. What a great book, that brings us into a merged world of humans and machines.
R**N
Easy to read yet profoundly informative
This delightful book manages to harness the science fiction trope of looking back from the future with a confident touch to imagine and explain with startling immediacy the current world of robot research. Never ponderous, it doesn't take itself too seriously and informs while entertaining.
S**L
Fun way to learn about the possible robot future
Interesting take on the potential of robots. I didn’t agree with it all, but hey, that is the point. The book is well thought out with lots of well-informed speculation by experts, told in an engaging style.
M**C
Creative, imaginative, thought provoking.
Creative, imaginative, thought provoking.
H**R
Great read!
Wonderful Book!
B**T
Disappointing; not really about the future of robotics
I was expecting to read a futurist's account of all the weird and wonderful ways robots will impact our lives in the decades, centuries, and millennia ahead. I expected to hear thought-provoking ideas and learn about bleeding-edge technologies. I did not.Instead, each chapter of this book is a robot-related rehashing of headlines ripped from the daily news.There's a chapter about Facebook, that doesn't have anything to do with Robotics, but does sound like sound bites from Zuckerberg's congressional hearing: Facebook is evil; Zuckerberg should step down; etc.There's a chapter on self-driving cars and, again, it's not really about robotics... it's a diatribe that cobbles together the most sensational headlines surrounding ride-share services and autonomous vehicles... and goes so far as to suggest that autonomous cars are a terrible idea as they will put professional drivers out of business.If you believe that the only possible future outcome of robots is to take people's jobs, destroy our humanity, and lead us to a dark and dystopian future, this book may be for you.
M**P
On point
David Ewing Duncan has written a book both serious and whimsical about some of the most serious issues of our era, everything from war to how we raise our kids to sex and relationships told through a storytelling device that’s unique - a mix of nonfiction reporting and interviews with people in the present and fictional stories that imagine what might happen with AI and robots in the future. Fun , interesting and funny with unexpected insights and story twists. Bravo!
A**R
Insightful look into our future and absolute pleasure to read.
Talking to Robots is written from the lens of a future historian that weaves insights from experts with David Duncan's brilliant imagination and storytelling. I enjoyed all of the robots and look forward to a future where I can travel across the 12th dimension transcending space and time and hope for one where we develop and apply AI ethically and to the benefit of humanity.
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