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Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android

David Dufty

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Description:In 2004, a group of men built the Philip K Dick Android. Then, en route to a presentation at Google, the android head was left on a plane. It has never been found.Meet the Philip K Dick Android. It wears the famous science-fiction author’s clothes, thinks his thoughts and speaks his mind. All the while sitting in a simulacrum of the author’s living room.In Lost in Transit, David F Dufty takes us into the world of artificial intelligence, robots, sci-fi addicts and kill switches to show us how the android was made, and how the cult writer became, for a while, the cult-writer android. With great enthusiasm and affection for his subject, Dufty tells the human story of how a bright idea was brought to life, on the proverbial smell of an oily rag. It is an unforgettable story of fierce obsession, strong intelligence, art and science, spiked with humour and wit.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android. To get started finding Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0522860621

Description: In 2004, a group of men built the Philip K Dick Android. Then, en route to a presentation at Google, the android head was left on a plane. It has never been found.Meet the Philip K Dick Android. It wears the famous science-fiction author’s clothes, thinks his thoughts and speaks his mind. All the while sitting in a simulacrum of the author’s living room.In Lost in Transit, David F Dufty takes us into the world of artificial intelligence, robots, sci-fi addicts and kill switches to show us how the android was made, and how the cult writer became, for a while, the cult-writer android. With great enthusiasm and affection for his subject, Dufty tells the human story of how a bright idea was brought to life, on the proverbial smell of an oily rag. It is an unforgettable story of fierce obsession, strong intelligence, art and science, spiked with humour and wit.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android. To get started finding Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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