A Futurist Examines The Future of Robots

Posted by Peter Bishop | May 14, 2020 | Foresight, Robotics | 0 |

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A Futurist Examines The Future of Robots

Peter Bishop

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This new magazine, Age of Robots,contains a clear message: we are entering the age of robots, and we should learn now about what this age might be like. But how do we do that? Do we simply extrapolate from the age of machines? We could, and many do, but robots are not just machines. They are, or will soon be, intelligent in many ways beyond machines. Should we extrapolate from the age of computers? Again we could, but while the core of a robot is a computer, it is much more. So how are we to learn and in some sense know what is ahead of us in this age of robots. Read this article to find out.

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Peter Bishop

Dr. Bishop is the Founder and the Executive Director of Teach the Future, a non-profit corporation whose mission is to introduce futures thinking in classes and schools at all levels around the world. Bishop retired as an Associate Professor and Director of the Foresight program at the University of Houston in 2013.