Download or read book Gods and Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

Download or read book Atlantis The Accidental Invasion Atlantis Book 1 written by Gregory Mone and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Atlantis: The Accidental Invasion is now in paperback! Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government’s insistence that they’re only stories, she can’t help but dream about the Sun People—and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all. In the world above, where climate change has led to giant tsunamis that threaten Earth’s coasts, all Lewis wants is to spend more time with his scientist father. When he stows away on his dad’s top-secret research trip, he finds himself thrown headfirst into an adventure much bigger than he bargained for. Fast-paced and action-packed, The Accidental Invasion brings readers into a world unlike anything they’ve seen before. Bonus content includes real scientific information about genetic modification, earthquakes, nuclear power, and plate tectonics.

Download or read book Beyond the Robot written by Gary Lachman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood intellects of the past century. You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this rediscovery of the life and work of writer, rebel, and social experimenter Colin Wilson (1931-2013). Author of the classic The Outsider, Wilson, across his 118 books, purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him one of the least understood and most important voices of the twentieth century. Wilson helped usher in the cultural revolution of the 1960s with his landmark work, The Outsider, published in 1956. The Outsider was an intelligent, meticulous, and unprecedented study of nonconformity in all facets of life. Wilson, finally, became a prolific and unparalleled historian of the occult, providing a generation of readers with a responsible and scholarly entry point to a world of mysteries. Now, acclaimed historian Gary Lachman, a friend of Wilson and a scholar of his work, provides an extraordinary and delightful biography that delves into the life, thought, and evolution of one of the greatest intellectual rebels and underrated visionaries of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Wired for War written by P. W. Singer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Singer's] enthusiasm becomes infectious . . . Wired for War is a book of its time: this is strategy for the Facebook generation.” —Foreign Affairs “An engrossing picture of a new class of weapon that may revolutionize future wars. . .” —Kirkus Reviews P. W. Singer explores the great­est revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The Terminator. Blending historical evidence with interviews of an amaz­ing cast of characters, Singer shows how technology is changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and the ethics that surround war itself. Travelling from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to modern-day "skunk works" in the midst of suburbia, Wired for War will tantalise a wide readership, from military buffs to policy wonks to gearheads.

Download or read book Eclipse of Man written by Charles T. Rubin and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able to link our minds telepathically, and will live for centuries—or maybe forever. The perfection of a “post-human” future awaits us. Or so the story goes. In reality, the rush toward a post-human destiny amounts to an ideology of human extinction, an ideology that sees little of value in humanity except the raw material for producing whatever might come next. In Eclipse of Man, Charles T. Rubin traces the intellectual origins of the movement to perfect and replace the human race. He shows how today’s advocates of radical enhancement are—like their forebears—deeply dissatisfied with given human nature and fixated on grand visions of a future shaped by technological progress. Moreover, Rubin argues that this myopic vision of the future is not confined to charlatans and cheerleaders promoting this or that technology: it also runs through much of modern science and contemporary progressivism. By exploring and criticizing the dreams of post humanity, Rubin defends a more modest vision of the future, one that takes seriously both the limitations and the inherent dignity of our given nature.

Download or read book An Amazing Human Journey written by Shakuntala Modi, M.D. and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did the first humans begin to inhabit the Earth? How did they get here? Why and for what purpose were they put here? How did they evolve from the first humans who looked like a Botticelli painting, to “ape-like” humans, to modern day humans? You will also read about Lamuria and Atlantis ,and without spirituality how Atlanteans destroyed themselves and their continent. Dr. Modi explains all this and more in her remarkable work about the astounding past and future of mankind. In doing this, she describes how spirituality is the key to successfully fulfilling mankind’s desire to become one with God. According to Dr. Modi, human beings have the unique potential to create a heaven-like society on Earth by spreading the spirituality on Earth that will eventually spread to neighboring planets, galaxies, and the entire universe through the continued development and enhancement of spirituality. From what was, to what is, could well include a future with the entire universe “going home to God.” The book takes you on what can only be described as An Amazing Human Journey.

Download or read book Artemis Fowl 7 The Atlantis Complex written by Eoin Colfer and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world's greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies - not humans - and most likely triggered by Artemis's dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms include obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, multiple personality disorder and, in extreme cases, embarrassing professions of love to a certain feisty LEPrecon fairy

Download or read book Handbook of Industrial Robotics written by Shimon Y. Nof and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrieroboter gehoren heute zum Alltag. In den letzten zehn Jahren verlagerte sich der Schwerpunkt der Neuentwicklungen weg von den Robotern selbst, hin zu alternativen Formen der kunstlichen Intelligenz, mit denen die Gerate ausgestattet werden. Dem Rechnung tragend, beschaftigt sich die zweite Auflage dieses Handbuchs vor allem mit Anwendungen und Strategien zur Problemlosung in der Industrie. Angesprochen werden Themen wie Graphiksimulatoren, objektorientierte Software, Kommunikationssysteme und Mikro- und Nanoroboter. (04/99)

Download or read book Teleoperation and Robotics in Space written by Carl F. Ruoff and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams written by Christopher Bolton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbächer, Berlin Free U. Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.

Download or read book Behavior based Robotics written by Ronald C. Arkin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Michael Arbib This introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniques central to the development of this class of systems in a clear and thorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and learning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robot architectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends in robot intelligence. The text throughout refers to actual implemented robots and includes many pictures and descriptions of hardware, making it clear that these are not abstract simulations, but real machines capable of perception, cognition, and action.

Download or read book Child of Atlantis written by Perry Covington and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you think you know about history is wrong. What you don't know can get you killed. Max had always been a painfully normal kid, until he discovers that he is a descendant of the lost Empire of Atlantis. The Atlanteans possess superhuman powers, are technologically advanced, and have been the sworn protectors and teachers of humanity since time immemorial. A group known as the Fallen, an opposing faction of Atlanteans who wish to destroy all the "Earthborn," threaten their benevolent mission. The world has become plagued with war and famine and, all the while, the Fallen close their grip on our planet. Max is the Key to tipping the balance of this ancient war, but he must first trek across Europe to find his kidnapped parents, with the help of a malfunctioning robot and a combat hardened Atlantean girl. Two superpowers collide across the European continent to gain control of Max, as he desperately searches for his parents. On his journey, Max will not only learn about the hidden history of the world, he will also learn that the responsibility of earth's very survival rests squarely on his shoulders. So, you know, no pressure.

Download or read book Atlantis Returns Part 1 The Reawakening written by Colin K Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past, present and future finally collide in this fascinating, action-packed, enlightening account of our long-forgotten ancient past catching up with its impending Earth-shattering future! Following annihilation of their own world after a cosmic collision between Triton and Pluto, which sent Venus spiralling into a near-Sun orbit, the Venusian's set up the Atlantis Empire on Earth. However, following genetic enhancement of humanity, the cosmopolitan harmony was catastrophically interrupted by invading Reptilian forces from the Red Dwarf Star system which passed by our solar system 70K years ago. This sparked a 30K Cold War, also ending in global destruction. Finally, the past catches up with the present and following an unexpected encounter between brothers and a Venusian in waters off the Welsh coast, a highly publicised series of astonishing events unravels, captured instantly by social media. Then humanity faces the fact it really is not alone in the Universe, let alone on Earth!

Download or read book Drones and Responsibility written by Ezio Di Nucci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design? This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first time, a systematic interdisciplinary discussion of different responsibility issues raised by military drones. The book discusses four main sets of questions: First, from a legal point of view, we analyse the ways in which the use of drones makes the attribution of criminal responsibility to individuals for war crimes more complicated and what adjustments may be required in international criminal law and in military practices to avoid ’responsibility gaps’ in warfare. From a moral and political perspective, the volume looks at the conditions under which the use of military drones by states is impermissible, permissible, or even obligatory and what the responsibilities of a state in the use of drones towards both its citizens and potential targets are. From a socio-technical perspective, what kind of new human machine interaction might (and should) drones bring and which new kinds of shared agency and responsibility? Finally, we ask how the use of drones changes our conception of agency and responsibility. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in (military) ethics and to those in law, politics and the military involved in the design, deployment and evaluation of military drones.

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Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine 133 January February 2019 written by J. Douglas Kenyon and published by Atlantis Rising LLC. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ebook edition: THE TEOTIHUACAN REVELATIONS Astonishing New Evidence for Advanced Ancient Civilization in Mexico BY JONATHON PERRIN WAS COLUMBUS ON A SECRET MISSION? To Prove the Earth Was Round... or Something Else? BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER ALTERNATIVE HISTORY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN TENNESSEE? Cracking the Mystery of the Melungeon People BY STEVEN SORA SECRET SCIENCE INVISIBLE WARFARE Did the Allied Powers of WWII Get Help from Other Dimensions? BY MARCIA DIEHL ALTERNATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY RELICS FROM THE ICE AGE? Are Malta‘s Temples Thousands of Years Older than Conventional Archaeologists Acknowledge? BY ROBERT SCHOCH, Ph.D. LOST HISTORY FIGHTING BROTHERS American vs. English Freemasons BY STEPHEN V. O‘ROURKE ANCIENT MYSTERIES MEGALITHIC TECH Understanding the Standing Stones & Circles of a Lost Science BY CHARLES SHAHAR ANCIENT SCIENCE THE LOST ROBOTS Uncovering the Forgotten Achievements of Ancient Inventors BY FRANK JOSEPH ANCIENT MYSTERIES MA‘MUN‘S PASSAGE Did the Caliph Know Something about the Great Pyramid that Egyptologists Still Don‘t? BY RALPH ELLIS & MARK FOSTER HOLISTIC HEALTH CAN MIND HEAL MATTER? Surprisingly, the Evidence Is Clear BY MITCH HOROWITZ THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST THE MOULIN QUIGNON MYSTERY DEEPENS BY MICHAEL A. CREMO ASTROLOGY NABTA PLAYA Is This the Ancient Source of Egyptian Cosmology? BY JULIE LOAR PUBLISHER‘S LETTER COULD BIG SCIENCE BE ON TRIAL? BY J. DOUGLAS KENYON

Download or read book The Robots Rebellion The Story of Spiritual Renaissance written by David Icke and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Icke's strongest book to date, The Robots' Rebellion reveals the alarming extent to which people of all nations are programmed by the ideas fed to them by those in power. We live in a world which is increasingly dominated by technology but, according to Icke, it is we who are the robots. Fearlessly, he tears down the veils of hypocrisy, built up for generations by the corrupt forces of Church, State, science and commerce — and reveals the true pathos of the human condition beneath. He points, too, to the frightening influence wielded throughout the planet by a merciless and manipulative network of secret societies. The existence of long-established links between Earth-bound humanity and beings from other dimensions and planets in the Universe has been suppressed for years, says Icke, by the world's power-broking hierarchy. When ordinary people learn the real role they have to play within a rich and varied cosmic society, rebellion against those who have kept this extraordinary truth from them will, he predicts, be inevitable. The author is no stranger to controversy. Formerly best-known as a TV sports commentator and leading spokesman for the British Green Party, he is gaining increasing authority as a tireless campaigner for truth. His widely-publicised spiritual transformation has given him the courage to speak out fearlessly against lies deceit. Hidebound politicians, bankers, economists, educationalists, scientists and the leaders of the world's established religions are not going to welcome Icke's challenging book. But it is not intended for those who wield and abuse power. This book is for the world's unwilling robots who, says Icke, in an upbeat conclusion, have it within themselves to rise up — and take control of their own exciting destiny. The Robots' Rebellion: Table of Contents Introduction Remember Who You Are PART ONE: The Darkness - The Takeover Bid - Collective Amnesia - The Brotherhood of Clans - Bible Stories - Hell on Earth - Arabian Knights - The Cracks Appear - Eagle Tails - The Rule of Science - The World at War - Big is Beautiful - The New World Order - When Will We Ever Learn? PART TWO: The Light - Goodbye to All That - The Economics of Enough - The Politics of People - The Science of Sanity - Bricks in the Wall - Exploitation of the Spirit - The World Needs Rebels