Beautiful Machines: Tales Of The Uncanny

To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both? In these pages, you will encounter machines that laugh and cry and kill and make love and write bad poetry. You will meet robots that dwell in that uncanny valley wherein humans and machines share a common, existential crisis.