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050		4	_aPC3942.43.O763 _bM8813 2018
100			_aTorras, Carme _eauthor _910590
240	1	0	_aMutació sentimental. _lEnglish.
245	1	4	_aThe vestigial heart _b: a novel of the robot age _c/ Carme Torras ; translated by Josephine Swarbrick.
260			_aCambridge, MA : _bThe MIT Press, _c2018.
300			_a253 pages ; _c23 cm.
500			_aEnglish translation of: Mutació sentimental. Lleida : Pagès Editors, 2008.
520			_aA thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and "emotional masseuses" try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think, but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from the twenty-first century who wakes from a cryogenically induced sleep into this strange world. This is the compelling story told by Carme Torras in this prize-winning science fiction novel. We meet Celia, brought back to life when a cure is found for her formerly terminal disease, and Lu, Celia's adoptive mother, protective but mystified by her new daughter. There is Leo, a bioengineer, who is developing a "creativity prosthesis" to augment humans' atrophied capacities, and the eccentric robotics mogul Dr. Craft. And there is Silvana, an emotional masseuse who reads old books to research the power of emotion. Silvana sees Celia as a living, breathing example of the emotions and feelings that are now out of reach for most people. Torras, a prominent roboticist, weaves provocative ethical issues into her story. What kind of robots do we want when robot companions become as common as personal computers are now' Is it the responsibility of researchers to design robots that make the human mind evolve in a certain way' An appendix provides readers with a list of ethics questions raised by the book.
650		0	_aRobotics _xFiction _910585
650		0	_a Emotions _xFiction _910586
650		0	_a Bioengineering _xFiction _910587
650		0	_a Memory _xFiction _910588
653			_aBibliography M1 - Digital Transformation
655		0	_aScience fiction _922728
700			_aSwarbrick, Josephine _etranslator _923567
730	0		_aMIT Press trade books backfile collection.
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