Anybody who has known me for even five minutes likely knows my intense and unyielding passion for robots. They are also likely to know my theories on the impending robot wars, as well as my speculation on whether humans and robots will ever get along. And yet I have not read this book...
Check out the wonderful description:
Using examples drawn from around the world, David Levy shows how automata have evolved from the mechanical marvels of centuries past to the electronic androids of the modern age, and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Along the way, Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and to virtual pets such as the Tamagotchi, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. He also examines the needs we seek to fulfill through sexual relationships, tracking the development of life-sized dolls, machines, and other sexual devices, and demonstrating how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.I'm really interested in this thesis and would love to read this book. Someone buy it for me.
Also, here is another great book about robots that fascinated me.
