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Dainton, Barry |
Minding the Future |
I11673 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Broderick, Damien |
The Time Machine Hypothesis |
I09470 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Webb, Stephen |
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales |
I08568 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Noam Chomsky |
Powers and prospects: Reflections on human nature and the social order |
E01233 |
1996 |
Book |
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D.C. Browning (compiler) |
Dictionary of quotations and proverbs |
000011 |
1988 |
Book |
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| Title | Minding the Future : Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Visions and Science Fiction |
| Author(s) | Dainton, Barry;Slocombe, Will;Tanyi, Attila |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XIV, 287 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Bringing together literary scholars, computer scientists, ethicists, philosophers of mind, and scholars from affiliated disciplines, this collection of essays offers important and timely insights into the pasts, presents, and, above all, possible futures of Artificial Intelligence. This book covers topics such as ethics and morality, identity and selfhood, and broader issues about AI, addressing questions about the individual, social, and existential impacts of such technologies. Through the works of science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov, Stanislaw Lem, Ann Leckie, Iain M. Banks, and Martha Wells, alongside key visual productions such as Ex Machina, Westworld, and Her, contributions illustrate how science fiction might inform potential futures as well as acting as a springboard to bring disciplinary knowledge to bear on significant developments of Artificial Intelligence. Addressing a broad, interdisciplinary audience, both expert and non-expert readers gain an in-depth understanding of the wide range of pressing issues to which Artificial Intelligence gives rise, and the ways in which science fiction narratives have been used to represent them. Using science fiction in this manner enables readers to see how even fictional worlds and imagined futures have very real impacts on how we understand these technologies. As such, readers are introduced to theoretical positions on Artificial Intelligence through fictional works as well as encouraged to reflect on the diverse aspects of Artificial Intelligence through its many philosophical, social, legal, scientific, and cultural ramifications |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030642693 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. LITERATURE
6. PHILOSOPHY
7. Sociology
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| Title | The Time Machine Hypothesis : Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction |
| Author(s) | Broderick, Damien |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XIII, 243 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality???time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030161781 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. FICTION
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. LITERATURE
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. PHYSICS
8. Popular Science in Literature
9. Popular Science in Physics
10. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales |
| Author(s) | Webb, Stephen |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XIII, 305 p. 22 illus., 14 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories ??? all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers ??? dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story???s main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life in 2015, All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring Past Notions of the Future in 2017, also published as part of Springer???s Science and Fiction series, as well as recently, Clash of Symbols - A ride through the riches of glyphs. His 2018 TED talk on aliens has to date been watched more than 2.33 million times |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030031954 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. FICTION
5. LITERATURE
6. PHYSICS
7. Popular Science in Literature
8. Popular Science in Physics
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