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Robo sapiens
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Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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Future Star Shines On: Katielyn Balobalo Villafuerte (Katedec)
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"I Could Not Ask for More" by Katielyn Balobalo Villafuerte
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“I Could Not Ask for More” is a song composed by American songwriter Diane Warren and originally recorded by American recording artist Edwin McCain. McCain’s version was released on January 11, 2000 as the last single from his third studio album, Messenger. In 2001, American country music artist Sara Evans popularly covered the song, sending her rendition to No. 2 on Billboards Hot Country Songs chart.
The trend is clear that the major universities, international R&D centers, corporations R&D centers, governments, military industrial complex R&D centers, and great thinkers have and will continue to focus on “Futures Studies” as an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking or futuring. Futures studies and the sub-discipline strategic foresight are the academic field’s most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world, (Source http://www.wikipedia.org/).
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“Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist—automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act like living creatures. When they are brought into existence, science fiction will have become fact.
What will happen then? With our prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginning to resemble our machines. Equally important, our machines are beginning to resemble us. Robots already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to our facial expressions and obey verbal commands. When they take the next step and become fully autonomous, what will they do? Will we be partners or rivals? Could we meld into a single species—Robo sapiens?
In Robo sapiens, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than one hundred robots is an account of the little-known, yet vitally important scientific competition to build an autonomous robot. Containing extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal “field notes” with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines, Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future.”
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