| Bots: The Origin of New Species (Hardwired) |  | Author: Andrew Leonard
Publisher: Hardwired
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2,996,693
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 218
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1888869054
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.3
EAN: 9781888869057
ASIN: 1888869054
Publication Date: July 1997
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Condition: FORMER LIBRARY. Usual markings. Normal wear.
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Product Description
Is cyberspace the new primordial ooze in which out-of-control bots are mutating, multiplying, and engaging in a near-Darwinian struggle to survive? Where is this escalation heading? This is the first book written on the subject of bots. It is an in-depth investigation into a new reality of sky-rocketing complexity, dangerous malfunction, and masterful malice, drawing a powerful parallel between the biological and the digital evolution of species.
Amazon.com Review
Cyberspace is now heavily populated with non-human residents known as bots. Bots are software robots that facilitate e-mail, entertain visitors, fight for control of IRC chat rooms or flood your e- mail box with spam. Andrew Leonard is the Charles Darwin of bots, chronicling their rise from the primordial cyber-ooze to their becoming major players as both drudge workers and nuisances of the computerized world. The world of bots and their creators is filled with serious issues pertaining to online freedom, and is sometimes downright disturbing, but it is also often hilariously funny. The author takes us from the problems of recognizing artificial intelligence to the almost slapstick comedy of programming bungles. Leonard deftly reveals it all in a book that's extremely hard to put down.
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