ROBOTS!
So yesterday, as Steffani knows (she saw me there) as well as George (I showed him the book today), I bought How To Survive A Robot Uprising.
It may very well be the best $13 I ever spent. It is a great book (very funny). The only issue I had was about the physical book itself - the binding wasn't adequate for the pages it contained (about 5 are loose, which I will have to glue back in later), and the book I got actually had a tear in the top (I didn't notice because I saw the book, smiled, showed it to my mom, then Steffani and then bought it and started reading.)
I finished it already, which is odd for me, as Jeff knows, it usually takes me a while to finish books. The 170-something pages flew by quickly. Partly due to how funny and interesting it is, but also because of illustrations and spacing (which made the reading flow better).
Why did I buy this book?
Well, it all started with Speech class. Our next speech is an informative one. I was originally thinking about informing the class on the real meaning of the word "hacker" and not the media inspired equivalent. Then I thought about doing a speech on Open Source Software and decided I may save it and consider doing it for a persuasive speech. Then I finally decided to do it on robotics (inspired by the latest issue of Popular Science).
For some reason, the Robot Uprising idea got stuck in my head. I remembered seeing a book about that at Barens & Noble one time I went a while back with a title: How To Survive A Robot Uprising. I thought, maybe that is what a speech on robotics needs in order to capture the audience better. So I decided to try that, and I went to get the book. I started reading it, and I loved it. I may very well have laughed more times in the past 30 hours than I have in the past few months (excluding the past 30 hours, that is).
So I'm thinking of teaching the class about current robotics technology/research (mostly from the latest issue of Popular Science) and including the Robot Uprising twist to grab their interest, using the whole "You must know your enemy to defeat your enemy" idea. Mostly likely using PowerPoint showing pictures and such of current robot projects.
How's that sound?
It may very well be the best $13 I ever spent. It is a great book (very funny). The only issue I had was about the physical book itself - the binding wasn't adequate for the pages it contained (about 5 are loose, which I will have to glue back in later), and the book I got actually had a tear in the top (I didn't notice because I saw the book, smiled, showed it to my mom, then Steffani and then bought it and started reading.)
I finished it already, which is odd for me, as Jeff knows, it usually takes me a while to finish books. The 170-something pages flew by quickly. Partly due to how funny and interesting it is, but also because of illustrations and spacing (which made the reading flow better).
Why did I buy this book?
Well, it all started with Speech class. Our next speech is an informative one. I was originally thinking about informing the class on the real meaning of the word "hacker" and not the media inspired equivalent. Then I thought about doing a speech on Open Source Software and decided I may save it and consider doing it for a persuasive speech. Then I finally decided to do it on robotics (inspired by the latest issue of Popular Science).
For some reason, the Robot Uprising idea got stuck in my head. I remembered seeing a book about that at Barens & Noble one time I went a while back with a title: How To Survive A Robot Uprising. I thought, maybe that is what a speech on robotics needs in order to capture the audience better. So I decided to try that, and I went to get the book. I started reading it, and I loved it. I may very well have laughed more times in the past 30 hours than I have in the past few months (excluding the past 30 hours, that is).
So I'm thinking of teaching the class about current robotics technology/research (mostly from the latest issue of Popular Science) and including the Robot Uprising twist to grab their interest, using the whole "You must know your enemy to defeat your enemy" idea. Mostly likely using PowerPoint showing pictures and such of current robot projects.
How's that sound?