Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises th...(展开全部)

My car has wheels. My car has gas. The horn goes beep. Come take a ride.

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue - the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material - thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a ...(展开全部)

美国加州大学欧文分校科学与经济学院逻辑与哲学科学系杰出教授，斯坦福大学哲学系教授。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术与科学院院士。曾任美国哲学学会、科学哲学学会会长。

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue - the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material - thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a ...(展开全部)

When Mr. Gumpy decides to go for a ride in his bright-red car, everyone wants to come along -- a rabbit, a cat, a dog, a sheep, chickens, a calf, a goat, and a boy and girl. "All right," says Mr. Gumpy. "But it will be a squash." So they all squash in and, for a while, chug along happily. Then it starts to rain, and the car becomes stuck in the mud. Who will help Mr. Gumpy push...(展开全部)

道格·麦克亚当，美国斯坦福大学社会学教授和行为科学高级研究中心主任，著有《政治过程与黑人暴动的发展，1930—1970年》（1982）、《自由之夏》（1988，该书使作者得以分享1990年C.赖特·米尔斯奖）。