Beta-Life

Beta-Life

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Roberts, Adam
Comma Press
EAN: 9781910974742
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Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will diverge and disperse into a balanced ecosystem of humans and robjects (robotic objects). Somewhere in between, we humans will have to change also... in the way we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly intelligent environment, and how we interface with each other. The driving motors behind many of these changes will be artificial life (A-Life) and unconventional computing. How exactly they will impact on our world is still an open question. But in the spirit of collective intelligence, this anthology brings together 38 scientists and authors, working in pairs, to imagine what life (and A-Life) will look like in the year 2070. Every kind of technology is imagined: from lie-detection glasses to military swarmbots, brain-interfacing implants to synthetically grown skyscrapers, revolution-inciting computer games to synthetically engineered haute cuisine. All artificial life is here.
EAN 9781910974742
ISBN 1910974749
Binding Ebook
Publisher Comma Press
Publication date June 26, 2014
Pages 400
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Allirajah, Dinesh; Caldwell, Lucy; Cottrell-Boyce, Frank; Evers, Stuart; Gough, Julian; Litt, Toby; Marek, Adam; O'Brien, Sean; Orr, K.J; Quinn, Joanna; Roberts, Adam; Yassin-Kassab, Robin
Editors Amos, Martyn; Page, Ra