David Ewing Duncan is een gevierd auteur wiens werken complexe onderwerpen met scherpe intelligentie behandelen. Zijn schrijven onderscheidt zich door het vermogen om ingewikkelde wetenschappelijke en maatschappelijke vraagstukken om te zetten in boeiende verhalen. Duncan onderzoekt de diepgaande implicaties van technologische vooruitgang en de impact ervan op de menselijke conditie. Zijn werk zet lezers aan om na te denken over de toekomst en onze plaats daarin.
The story of the creation of the Western calendar - a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation. The book links politics and religion, astronomy and mathematics, and Cleopatra and Stephen Hawking.
What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology -- it's also about what robots tell us about being human