{"first_publish_date": "1999", "title": "Robot", "covers": [123916], "lc_classifications": ["TJ211 .M655 1999"], "key": "/works/OL2745022W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL402616A"}}], "dewey_number": ["303.48/34/0112"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Robotics"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride packed with startling predictions. He tells us, for instance, that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a period of very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fully automated economy. And eventually, as machines evolve far beyond humanity, robots will supplant us.\n\nBut if Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:20:19.209631"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-15T03:41:47.840044"}}