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The Dreams of Mechanical Life
Flesh and Machines, by Rodney A. Brooks
by Hugh Ormsby-Lennon
The Weekly Standard, December 23, 2002, pp. 31-35
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. Flesh and Machines (2002)
    Rodney A. Brooks
    How Robots Will Change Us
    2 Reviews
  2. Prey (2002)
    Michael Crichton
    2 Reviews
  3. Dumbstruck (2001)
    Steven Connor
    A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
    1 Review
  4. Building Bots (2002)
    William Gurstelle
    Designing and Building Warrior Robots
    1 Review
  5. Behind Deep Blue (2002)
    Feng-Hsiung Hsu
    Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion
    1 Review
  6. Are We Spiritual Machines? (2002)
    Ray Kurzweil, Jay Richards, and George F. Gilder, ...
    Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
    1 Review
  7. Robo Sapiens (2000)
    Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
    Evolution of a New Species
    1 Review
  8. The Secret Life of Puppets (2002)
    Victoria Nelson
    1 Review
  9. Devices of Wonder (2001)
    Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak
    From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
    1 Review
  10. The Turk (2002)
    Tom Standage
    The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  11. I, Cyborg (2002)
    Kevin Warwick
    1 Review
  12. Edison's Eve (2002)
    Gaby Wood
    A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
    2 Reviews
  13. The Cyborg Experiments (2002)
    Joanna Zylinska
    The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age
    1 Review
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