Some of the features of this new world will seem familiar: Doctorow does not, for example, expect the imminent demise of the printed word. In a two-hour telephone interview, Doctorow set out an optimistic vision, in which technology is transformed from an Orwellian threat into an enabler of individual expression. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy. For the 2006–2007 academic year, he held the Canada–U.S. Doctorow is a coeditor of the popular technology and culture website Boing Boing and was previously the director of European affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that upholds civil liberties on the internet.
Doctorow, 37, is the author of four novels, including the recent New York Times best seller Little Brother, a futuristic novel inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Events like the crash of 2008 provoke existential questions: How do we redefine our values in scarcer times? Are the lessons we learned growing up enough to equip us for today’s challenges, let alone tomorrow’s? Have the rules we live by changed irrevocably?įor insight into what our society and economy have become and where they are headed, HBR senior editor Diane Coutu turned to science fiction writer Cory Doctorow, whose art is all about imagining brave new worlds. First serial to Omni.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Promise or threat? Either way, the book's overtones take the breath away. But from Fjermedal's description, a future (a near-future?) of robots so marvelously "downloaded" with the mechanism and motivations of the human braineven molecule-sized robotsseems staggeringly real. These "tomorrow makers" are not designing merely our future on this planet, but perhapsby unimaginable evolutionary processes beginning with the "terraforming" of Marsthat of the universe itself. This will be heady reading for science fiction buffs and readers interested in what futurists are up to in their labs and institutes.
Discusses the future of robotics, looks at current research operations, and considers ethical questions concerning computers and robotsįjermedal, author of Magic Bullets, here offers a richly human picture of the lives and work of the brilliant, sometimes eccentric or self-amusedly arrogant robotics researchers at Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon and elsewhere with whom he spent countless hours in preparing his book.
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