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Robots are poised to transform today's society as completely as the Internet did twenty years ago. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff argues that we must decide to design ourselves into our future, or risk being excluded from it altogether. In the past decade, Google introduced us to driverless cars; Apple debuted Siri, a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets; and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the Web. Robots have become an integral part of society on the battlefield and the road; in business, education, and health care. Cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that in the coming years, these robots will act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immensely powerful machines, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, when the intelligent machine was born. Will we control these systems, or will they control us? In Machines of Loving Grace , John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. In recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramaticall

Who reads Machines of Loving Grace : the Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots?

Author

Markoff, John

Publisher

ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062266682

Category

science

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.66 / 5 (283 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14