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Genre/Form: | Popular works Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
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Named Person: | Philip K Dick; Philip K Dick |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David F Dufty |
ISBN: | 9780805095517 0805095519 |
OCLC Number: | 760974839 |
Notes: | Originally published: Lost in transit. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Pub., 2011. |
Description: | 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | A strange machine -- A tale of two researchers -- A meeting of minds -- A visit from Eva -- Simple robots -- The artist as scientist -- How to build a human head -- Life inside a laptop -- A California bungalow, 1974 -- An android in Memphis -- First, we take Chicago -- Talking in Memphis -- A carnival of robots -- Brain malfunction -- Einstein, reincarnated -- Headless. |
Other Titles: | Lost in transit |
Responsibility: | David F. Dufty. |
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Abstract:
The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.
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