The printed texts we will use in this class are available from the Centenary College Bookstore. We will also incorporate a substantial amount of online material, accessible below and through the schedule page. The printed texts are listed below:
Bear, Greg. Blood Music. 1985. New York: I Books, 2002.
Dick, Phillip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. 1968. New York: Del Rey, 1996.
Egan, Greg. Permutation City. New York: Harper, 1995.
Flanagan, Mary and Austin Booth, eds. Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture. Cambridge: MIT P, 2002.
Kurzweil, Ray. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. New York: Viking, 1999.
Powers, Richard. Galatea 2.2. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
Blade Runner
Metropolis
Robocop
Much of the material we discuss in this class will come from online journals, online versions of print publications, online magazines, unaffiliated web sites, and so on. Online resources are listed below. We will add to this list throughout the semester, as we encounter new material.
Chuang, Isaac and Neil Gershenfeld. "Quantum Computing with Molecules" <http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0171.html?m%3D3>
Dyson, Freeman J. "The Future Needs Us!" <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16053>
Forster, E.M. "The Machine Stops" <http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/forster.html>
Gerasimov, Vadim. "Information Processing in [the] Human Body" <http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/MAS862/Project.html>
Kaczynski, Theodor. Industrial Society and Its Future <http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/uni/uni.txt>
Kurzweil, Ray. "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" (private file; see also <http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0063.html>)
Neural Network FAQ <ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html#A2>
Ryu, Will. "DNA Computing: A Primer" <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/dna/dna-2.html>
Stallman, Richard. LISP source for doctor.el (Eliza) <http://personal.centenary.edu/~enunn/s03/383/doctor.el.txt>
Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" <http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html>
Kuro5hin <http://kuro5hin.org>
KurzweilAI.net <http://kurzweilai.net>
Slashdot <http://slashdot.org>
