The author laments that today's work force is not directed to use their talent and abilities to contribute to progress but instead are forced into robot-like obedience of their instructions, which do not allow creativity. This result in a deteriration of private lives as well as that of the advancement of civilization

Dubono describes her daughter's mental illness and treatment. After 36 years of psychiatric drugs, her "tirades" were still fresh. In addition she had gained several physical illnesses, while her cognition and functioning had declined into severe disability.. In view of the absence of any health worker in the group home to monitor severe side effects, she concludes that lack of transparency and the fact that high school graduates staff only obeyed orders blind fully, constitutes an enormous violation of patients rights and is an illegal human research project. Radical change was greatly overdue, but would not happen until all legislation made it illegal. As well as demand a more active participation at work highlighting each worker's special skills and talents, and creativity. This fear driven mentality is a monster in the aisle and must be slain before it destroys the very fabric of humanity, progress and liberty. Perhaps this is what Senator Bernie Sanders was referring to.

The author relates some of the circumstances that led her to petition for guardianship of her adult daughter who had a diagnosis of mental illness, autism, developmental disability, dyslexia, OCD, and learning disabiliity. Her efforts to protect her from the injury inflicted by neuroleptics, and the various avenues she explored for treatment as well as diagnosis are also related here with honesty, details, and helpful suggestions and comments.

​This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was born in the golden age of the automaton. His Bible on the Life Force and Creative Evolution, Back to Methuselah, was written when Karel and Josef Čapek coined the word “robot.” Shaw’s life ran in parallel with the rise of AI, and the big names in AI were his contemporaries. Moreover, empirical analyses of Shavian texts and images using AI uncovers possibilities for new interpretations, demonstrating how future renditions of his works may make use of these advanced technologies to broaden Shaw’s audience, readership and scholarship.

Originally published in the Great Depression this accessible volume was aimed not only at the academic economist, but also the general reader. The cycles of panic, boom and bust are discussed and solutions provided as to how to get over the bust periods as efficiently as possible. The commodities of wheat and gold are discussed in detail, and comparisons made between UK and US budget surpluses and deficits.

This book brings together two major strands of research: the exploration of early film criticism and theory and cinema's impact on literary texts, including the work of H.G.Wells and Virginia Woolf. It also offers new research on early writings about film, including the work of the women film critics who rose to prominence in the 1920s, and on film societies and film journals in the period.

Transcending time and space, Hyacinth enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to find her daughter who disappeared mysteriously at age three. Sherlock locates her on a distant planet Terrorista. She was adducted by mad scienntists sponsored by their government to study the mechanism of planet Debonnaire Neuroleptics as these interfere with communications between habitants of these planets through what is called on debonnaire hallucinations.

Social robotics drives a technological revolution of possibly unprecedented disruptive potential, both at the socio-economic and the socio-cultural level. The rapid development of the robotics market calls for a concerted effort across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines to understand the transformative potential of human-robot interaction. This effort cannot succeed without the special expertise in the study of socio-cultural interactions, norms, and values that humanities research provides. This book contains the proceedings of the conference “What Social Robots Can and Should Do,” Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in October 2016. The conference is the second event in the biennial Robophilosophy conference series, this time combined with an event of the Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics (TRANSOR). Featuring 13 plenaries and 74 session and workshop talks, the event turned out to be the world’s largest conference in Humanities research in and on social robotics. The book is divided into 3 sections: Part I and Part III contain the abstracts of plenary lectures and contributions to 6 workshops: Artificial Empathy; Co-Designing Children Robot Interaction; Human-Robot Joint Action; Phronesis for Machine Ethics?; Robots in the Wild; and Responsible Robotics. Part II contains short papers for presentations in 7 thematically organized sessions: methodological issues; ethical tasks and implications; emotions in human robot interactions; education, art and innovation; artificial meaning and rationality; social norms and robot sociality; and perceptions of social robots. The book will be of interest to researchers in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, robotics, computer science, and art. Since all contributions are prepared for an interdisciplinary readership, they are highly accessible and will be of interest to policy makers and educators who wish to gauge the challenges and potentials of putting robots in society.