March of the Machines

Kevin Warwick is professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of numerous books on a wide variety of subjects including robotics, information technology, biomedicine, and ethics, and is deeply engaged with advances in neural implants.

• ContentsAcknowledgements                                      viiPreface                                      ixChapter 1   A Cosy Relationship                                      1Chapter 2   In the Year 2050                                     21Chapter 3    What is Life?                                      39Chapter 4   Humanoid Robots                                      62Chapter 5   Artificial Intelligence                                      89Chapter 6   Big Brother                                      115Chapter 7   Human Brains Versus Machine Brains                                      137Chapter 8   Humans Are Best?                                      163Chapter 9   The Reading Robots - An Overture                                      186Chapter 10   Our Robots Today                                      209Chapter 11   What Next With the Robots?                                      234Chapter 12   A Fantastic Future                                      257Chapter 13   Mankind's Last Stand?                                      280Bibliography                                      303Further Reading                                      307

"An entertaining read, covering a complex subject in detail that should appeal equally to the casual reader and the hardened robophile."--Guardian "Grippingly horrible... interesting and thoughtful."--Daily Telegraph "An apocalyptic view of what the future holds for mankind."--Daily Mail