How to build an android the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection
The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.
| Main Author: | Dufty, David F. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
H. Holt,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A strange machine
- A tale of two researchers
- A meeting of minds
- A visit from Eva
- Simple robots
- The artist as scientist
- How to build a human head
- Life inside a laptop
- A California bungalow, 1974
- An android in Memphis
- First, we take Chicago
- Talking in Memphis
- A carnival of robots
- Brain malfunction
- Einstein, reincarnated
- Headless.