Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

摘要

Gregory benford and elisabeth malartre provide the survey of a future focused on robots and cyborgs. They predict an imminent change ahead of us (compared to the advent of personal computers during the 1980s) and set out to describe what that future will look like. They claim that in the next decade or two robots will be performing many of our jobs-such as surgery and firefighting-while having an unremarkable presence that is comparable to the computer screens of today. At the same time, we will proceed with augmenting interior and exterior body parts, changing our physical performance and our mental abilities. benford and malartre claim that these practices of augmentation will provoke controversies, which, however, will not be able to stop the trend.