Robots in Popular Culture - 9781440873843

Richard Hall

Robots in Popular CultureAndroids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination\nAuthor(s): Richard A. Hall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Greenwood Press\nISBN-13: 9781440873843, 978-1440873843\nSynopsis\nRobots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic robots in American popular culture.\n\nIn the last 10 years, technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have become not only a daily but a minute-by-minute part of American lifemore integrated into our lives than anyone would have believed even a generation before. Americans have long known the adorable and helpful R2-D2 and the terrible possibilities of Skynet and its army of Terminators. Throughout, we have seen machines as valuable allies and horrifying enemies. Today, Americans cling to their mobile phones with the same affection that Luke Skywalker felt for the squat R2-D2. Mea.