Runaway Science
eBook - ePub

Runaway Science

True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Runaway Science

True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors

About this book

Will computers come to dominate man? Will advanced technology, robots and artificial intelligence enhance or destroy our future … and thereby changing us forever!?! Learn about the history, the menace and opportunities of technology—as well as possible futures—in this one-of-a-kind book!

Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Is it a threat or a benefit? Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors presents the ominous, and some encouraging, stories of how technology has shaped our past and might shape our future. It dives into the question of mankind’s future. An exhilarating and troubling read, it looks at whether robots and technology are a threat or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include …

  • Robocops and robots in the police force
  • Robots replacing people in the workplace
  • The high tech of ancient times
  • Clones, androids, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots
  • CIA plots to control our minds
  • The sentient internet
  • Monitoring our every move with microchip implants
  • The threat of unfathomable alien intelligence and technology
  • The singularity of uncontrollable and irreversible supplanting of human intelligence with technological intelligence
  • Science fiction and science fact—and how science fiction foreshadowed the future
  • Clandestine technological dangers and government mind-control plots
  • Robotic limbs, androids and half-humans
  • The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality
  • Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct
  • And much, much more.

    With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of the menace of robots, artificial intelligence, and technology of the past, present, and future. Exciting and worrisome, Runaway Science looks at past horrors and future dangers of technology!

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    Table of contents

    1. Front Cover
    2. Title Page
    3. Contents
    4. Photo Sources
    5. Acknowledgments
    6. Introduction
    7. Living Tech
    8. Ancient Robots and Magical Machines
    9. Sex with Robots
    10. Bionic Eyes? Almost the Real Thing
    11. Limb Reconstruction, Robots, and “Luke”
    12. When Robots Go to War
    13. Replaced by Robot Lookalikes?
    14. Roswell, Robots, and UFOs
    15. Men in Black: Biological Robots or Alien Overlords?
    16. Robotic Spies in the Home
    17. Robocop Comes to Life
    18. When Your TV Becomes a Technology-Filled Danger
    19. Robots in the Sky
    20. The Rise of the Insect Robots
    21. Robots Doing What We Can Do
    22. Communing with Robots and Craving for Immortality
    23. When a Robot Made the World Stand Still
    24. Cinematic Robots and the World of Hollywood
    25. Robots: From NASA to DARPA
    26. Robotic Spheres from Another World
    27. A Bolivian Roswell and More on Dan Salter
    28. From Robots to Viruses
    29. Trying to Wipe Out the Human Race
    30. From Robots to Wormholes
    31. Robot Assassins
    32. Advanced Research Projects
    33. When Artificial Intelligence Begins to Flex Its Muscles
    34. Chipped Forever?
    35. Cloning: Inevitable for Us?
    36. The Rise of the Cyborgs
    37. Mind Control Madness
    38. Drugs and Altered Minds
    39. Grown in Factories: A Grim Future
    40. From the White House to COVID-19
    41. Closing with a Collection of Oddities
    42. Conclusions
    43. Further Reading
    44. Index
    45. About the Author
    46. Other Visible Ink Press Books by Nick Redfern
    47. Copyright