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I, Cyborg - Rilegato

Warwick, Kevin

 
9780712669887: I, Cyborg
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ISBN 10: 0712669884 ISBN 13: 9780712669887
Casa editrice: Century, 2002

Sinossi

In I, Cyborg, Professor Kevin Warwick, the world's leading expert in cybernetics, unveils the story of how he became the world's first Cyborg - a Cybernetic Organism - part human, part machine, in a groundbreaking set of scientific experiments.
He believes that in the years ahead we will witness machines with an intelligence more powerful than that of humans, and that robots, not humans, will make all the important decisions. A robot-dominated world might well have dire consequences for humankind; but is there, he asks, an alternative way ahead? Can we use technology to upgrade ourselves, to improve on our comparatively limited capabilities, to harness the ever-increasing abilities of machine intelligence, to access extra-sensory input and to communicate in a much richer way, using thought alone?
In fact, all of this is more than just a theoretical possibility. Here, Kevin Warwick reveals how he has taken the first practical steps on this fascinating path, using himself as a guinea pig receiving, by surgical operation, technological implants connected to his central nervous system.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England. He carries out research in AI, Control and Robotics. He has two children.

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f an artificial intelligence experiment in humans. <br><br>Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is to determine if emotions such as intoxication, anger, lust, can be read by the computer in terms of patterns of nervous excitement. Can these recorded emotions be beamed back to the chip in the body and experienced all over again? Will the emotions be communicable between two people – if one feels desire in New York, will the other be able to feel it in London? Will it change forever what it means to be human?

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Editore
Century
Data di pubblicazione
2002
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0712669884
ISBN 13 
9780712669887
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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