How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion | Daniel H. Wilson | More than just a funny read

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	How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion Daniel H. Wilson Bloomsbury USA, 2005 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

For those who like their humor books educational and shiny.

The good news is that robots lack emotions, so they can't get PO'd about how the human race has been exploiting them. The bad news is that they are smarter and more logical than we are - and might someday realize that there are a million and one reasons why we don't need to exist. Welcome to your near future. Do you know how you will survive the robot uprising?

First, know your enemy. Recognize that robots have "natural" weaknesses - lack of context/social adaptability, physical limitations over certain types of terrain - that humans can exploit to advantage. Be aware also that they may have certain strengths that humans lack; after all, that is what they are built for in the first place, isn't it? They do not need to sleep, for example, and therefore can perform tasks for a potential 24/7. Robots also may have "superhuman" abilities. Some robots can track your heat signature with thermal imaging cameras, mine credit card databases for information about you, turn built-in lasers on you, and of course, best you physically in a hand-to-hand combat situation with metal pincers and/or superior strength. How To Survive a Robot Uprising is soaked with information about current robotics and the trends that are now under development so that you can plan alternatives.

Next, avoid aiding your enemy unawares. They have been infiltrating our factories, offices and homes for years. They are pretty much everywhere now, and they will be able to link up with and/or control devices that go where they cannot. What will you do on that day when your cell phone signals your location to the evil supercomputer that controls the laser-armed satellites? Or when your Smart House locks you in and "leaks" the gas from your heater? There are strategies to counter each and every possibility, but you must be aware of them first or you will likely be betrayed by your very own convenience devices.

HTSARU is actually written by a very qualified individual who researches robotics and data mining. Mr. Wilson writes with a deadpan sense of humor that had me grinning throughout much of this short, sweet handbook and laughing out loud several times. Ironically, I ended up learning quite a bit about real-life robotics; the author spends the first two thirds of the book teaching a crash course on the subject as the prerequisite to the doomsday scenario strategies he offers in the last section. Richard Horne's red, black and white illustrations complement the text perfectly and have snickering little messages of their own embedded into the general absurdity.

Get it for the sake of the survival of our species, your own personal knowledge of the field of robotics, a few chuckles to lighten your subway commute or the cool metallic red page gilding. Get it for your purse and pull it out when you have to wait in the checkout line. Get it as the perfect gift for a SF geek. Get it - because everybody needs to know how to survive a robot uprising.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle

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More than just a funny read

I actually build robots for a living and was given this book recently by a coworker when I was laid off . This book is as factual as it is entertaining. Having never thought about escaping from the robots that I build, it is interesting to see things from a different perspective. The strategies that are described would actually be effective given today's state of the art which makes it seem even funnier. Let's hope that this humor book never actually becomes a true survival handbook.

love this

really good stuff here, just makes me wonder if it could be bad idea making this knowledge so public, a mad scientist like myself can keep these ideas in mind when calibrating my robot legion of doom... hah

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Funny and informative

It was entertaining, but I also feel like I now possess the knowledge to survive when faced with impending robodoom.

Prepare Yourself Before Its too late.

Modern Advances in Robotics taught via this tongue firmly in cheek guide to Surviving the Upcoming Robot Rebellion. The author takes on the "Terminator" films, "2001", Star Wars, "I Robot" and other sci-fi movies featuring out of control AI and comes up with a funny Survival Guide while at the same time bringing the reader up to date on recent advances in the field of Robotics.

My copy for some reason had several pages that were copies of one another 51-69 and 70-78. Obviously an attempt by the computer at the Publishing House to sow disinformation and decrease Organic Morale. Anyway it kept me from giving the book a higher rating.

If you are into scifi, this is a humourous and enjoyable way to spend a lazy weekend afternoon or a quiet evening. Now is the time to prepare yourself before Skynet lights up North America or the Trade Federation attacks. You can't depend upon John or Sarah Connor to save you!

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