J. Storrs Hall Bücher

"These are some of the questions discussed by computer scientist J. Storrs Hall̃. This is a guide for the general reader to the latest developments in artificial intelligence. Drawing on a thirty-year career, Hall reviews the history of AI, discussing some of the major roadblocks that the field has recently overcome, and he predicts the probable achievements in the near future. There is new excitement in the field over the amazing capabilities of the latest robots and renewed optimism that the goal of achieving human-level intelligence is reachable."--Jacket

In Where Is My Flying Car?, engineer and futurist J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer the deceptively simple question posed in the book’s title. What starts as an exploration of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an examination of the global economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion and nanotechnology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder.