The Reality of the Artificial: Nature, Technology and Naturoids

by Massimo Negrotti

Book Overview

The human ambition to reproduce and improve natural objects and processes has a long history, and ranges from dreams to actual design, from Icarus's wings to modern robotics and bioengineering. This imperative seems to be linked not only to practical utility but also to our deepest psychology. Nevertheless, reproducing something natural is not an easy enterprise, and the actual replication of a natural object or process by means of some technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642443532
• ISBN13: 9783642443534
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"