PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning science journalist. A contributor to Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Atlantic, and National Geographic and the bestselling author of eleven books published in twenty-one languages, he was founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint. * Kirkus * Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed . . . [he] is a popularizer and storyteller. * USA Today * A riveting read. * Time Magazine * A brilliant chronicle of encounters with our future selves. -- Andrei Codrescu, bestselling author and NPR commentator 'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.' * Vanity Fair * 'A fascinating work of imaginative futurology, a science journalist takes a look at our current technologies and anticipates the human-robot future that could await us - one full of warrior bots, politician bots, doctor bots and sex bots.' -- Barbara VanDenburgh * '5 Books Not to Miss', USA Today * One of the best summer reads of 2019. -- David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo * USA Today's Today programme *
