Our Robots, Ourselves Quotes

“A physical task becomes a visual display, and then a cognitive task. What once required strength now requires attention, patience, quick reactions.”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

“Alvin dropped the bomb, which fell back down the seafloor to an even deeper, unknown position.”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

“lost a hydrogen bomb in the ocean near Spain,”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

“where are the people? Which people? What are they doing? And when?”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

“robots are “only one software upgrade away” from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued.”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

“In space, great distances force us to spread out cognition over time, enabling us to see how autonomy maps across the solar system as distributed human presence. How we program our models of the world into autonomous systems here on earth is the subject of the next chapter.”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy