In this myth-busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced. The ultimate dream of AI is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, its rapid progress is already profoundly changing our world. Yet the public debate and media hype is still la...(展开全部)

This collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1968. From moving portraits of clinical depression to phantasmagoric visions of sci-fi wonder – including the previously unpublished story ‘Starting a Career’ – the writings collected in Machines in the Head offer an accessible introduction to readers new to her work and a timely s...(展开全部)

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。

As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, "Darwin Among the Machines" tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries--from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann--who foresaw the development of artificial intellige...(展开全部)

George Dyson grew up at the Institute for Advanced Study, where such scientists as his father, Freeman Dyson, and John von Neumann laid the foundations for the Information Age. From this vantage point, and with an unprecedented cast of characters, Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the develo...(展开全部)

In this astonishing prediction of the World Wide Web's ultimate challenge to human civilization--a globally networked, electronic, sentient being--Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work, and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the global mind.

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us? Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of techno...(展开全部)

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。