The nutshell: Carnegie Mellon University roboticist Nourbakhsh imagines a future in which ever more intelligent forms of artificial intelligence dictate the way we work, shop, play, and travel.

Literary lovechild of: Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot and Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis’ Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.

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