Download or read book The Jetsons Rosie Come Home written by Lisa Ann Marsoli and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature Film and Popular Culture written by Gregory Jerome Hampton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society. This text interrogates how the domestic slaves of the past are being re-imaged as domestic robots of the future. Hampton asserts that the rhetoric used to persuade an entire nation to become dependent on the institution of chattel slavery will be employed to promote the enslavement of technology in the form of humanoid robots with Artificial Intelligence. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture makes the claim that science fiction, film, and popular culture have all been used to normalize the notion of robots in domestic spaces and relationships. In examining the similarities of human slaves and mechanical or biomechanical robots, this text seeks to gain a better understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. And in doing so, give pause to those who would disassociate America’s past from its imminent future.
Download or read book My Fair Ladies written by Julie Wosk and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears they embody. My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how “living dolls” have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the “perfect” woman turns out to be artificial—a robot or doll—and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women. Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk’s own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the “feminine mystique” era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.
Download or read book The Jetsons written by Jimmy Palmiotti and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reimagined Hanna-Barbera line leaps into the future with an unexpected vision of a high-tech world on the brink of disaster! Meet George Jetson, a family man in a post-digital world. His wife Jane is a brilliant scientist working off-world at a conference, his daughter Judy is a social butterfly trying to discover her true calling and his son Elroy is busy using technology to break the rules. Helping keep order in the house is Rosie the Robot É who houses the memories and personality of George's own mother! With Jane off in space and George busy keeping an eye on Spacely SprocketsÕ infrastructure, Elroy gets into some trouble on his own, disturbing undersea ruins and accidentally triggering explosive consequences. But there may not be time enough for it to matter, as Jane has learned that somethingÕs heading for Earth at incredible speed, and the collision may mean the end of life as we know it, unless the hapless George Jetson can survive first contactÉ Writer Jimmy Palmiotti (Harley Quinn) and phenomenal artist Pier Brito (Daredevil) bring the world of the future home in The Jetsons! Collects The Jetsons #1-6. ÒIt's a fascinating and chilling new take on a classic franchise, and it forces us to ask plenty of questions about our own future.Ó ÑSYFY Wire ÒThe Jetsons is a perfect dystopia.Ó ÑThe Verge
Download or read book I Love You for Miles and Miles written by Alison Goldberg and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the depth, height, and steadiness of one's love for another by comparing it with the deepest drill, tallest crane, and steadiest tugboat.
Download or read book Moi and Marie Antoinette written by Lynn Cullen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastien relates the life of Marie Antoinette as she goes from being a teenager devoted to him, her pug dog, to becoming the Queen of France and mother to two children.
Download or read book The Smart Wife written by Yolande Strengers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her "master" helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife "manifesta," proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.
Download or read book The Seven Princesses written by Smiljana Coh and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, there were seven princess sisters who did everything together, from horseback riding to jumping in royal leaf piles to throwing legendary piñ parties. But one day, they had the biggest fight in the entire history of princess fighting. There was no worse sound than the sound of this fight. Will the sisters ever find a way to fill their kingdom with sounds of laughter and playing again? Princesses of all sizes will royally delight in this modern-day fairy tale of sibling rivalry, adventure, and unconditional sisterly love.
Download or read book Jetsons on the Move written by Marc Gave and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Jetson gets a promotion to Vice-President, his family moves to outer space. George soon discovers that his company is destroying the home of the Grunchees, friendly underground creatures, and it's up to him to work out a solution that benefits both the environment and the factory.
Download or read book Yogi Bear Lost and Found written by Ronald Kidd and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yogi Bear's new-found friend, Pupperoni, makes it much easier to collect picnic baskets. Boo Boo, Cindy Bear, and Ranger Smith learn that there's no place like home.
Download or read book The Jetsons written by Jimmy Palmiotti and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in single magazine form in The Jetsons 1-6, Booster gold/The Flintstones special 1"--Copyright page.
Download or read book Laundry Day written by Jessixa Bagley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two bored badgers have run out of things to do until their mom suggests they help with the laundry"--
Download or read book Greed Is Good and Other Fables written by Tony Osborne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit. The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildrenGeneration Yaggressively covet desk jobs. "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.
Download or read book Little Raccoon Learns to Share written by Mary Packard and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What luscious berries Little Raccoon has picked! She wants to eat them ALL. So when she spies her friends coming by, she hides behind a bush. Will Little Raccoon end up keeping the berries to herself—or will she see how rewarding sharing can be?
Download or read book The Internet of Things written by Michael Miller and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet of Things (IoT) won't just connect people: It will connect "smart" homes, appliances, cars, offices, factories, cities… the world. Michael Miller shows how connected smart devices will help people do more, do it smarter, do it faster. He also reveals the potential risks - to your privacy, your freedom, and maybe your life.
Download or read book It s a Jetson s World Private Miracles and Public Crimes written by Jeffrey Albert Tucker and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I am George Washington written by Brad Meltzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children will want to read about our first president while discussing the presidential elections. This is the ninth book in the New York Times bestselling biography series that inspires while it informs and entertains. (Cover may vary) George Washington was never afraid to be the first to try something, from exploring the woods around his childhood home to founding a brand new nation, the United States of America. With his faith in the American people and tremendous bravery, he helped win the Revolutionary War and became the country’s first president. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. Included in each book are: • A timeline of key events in the hero’s history • Photos that bring the story more fully to life • Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable • Childhood moments that influenced the hero • Facts that make great conversation-starters • A virtue this person embodies: George Washington's courage to set off a new course is highlighted here. You’ll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!
