How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion | Daniel H. Wilson | This book proves robots are evil

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	How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion Daniel H. Wilson Bloomsbury USA, 2005 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Must-Get for any Robot Lover

I loved this book. It is a good light, funny read. It gives alot of insight in regards to current technology and lets you know what is out there in response to robot hardware/software. Some parts were flat out funny and other informative. I thought it was a great book for anyone interested in robots and technogoly and where we are going. I also loved the cover of it which is a shiny, glossy eye-catching cover. One I enjoyed.

This book proves robots are evil

I wanted to come back and edit this review. I just read this book again (for the fourth time), and it is as scary as ever. I love the layout of this book, and the metallic print and devastatingly wicked art really add a punch to the well-written text. I highly recommend pairing this up with The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead for a great weekend of thoroughly destroying any hope you may have of a happy future for mankind.

This book is hilarious - and scary (which I like). Written in an authoritarian paranoid style and solidly packed with clever graphics and illustrations, this survival guide draws you in with it's early "Well, this *could* happen" laze fair stylings, and quickly transforms your general unease into a rabid fascination with the malicious plottings of your kitchen toaster, who has been burning the bagels a bit more often than normal as of late.

Face it: the toaster IS sending you a message, and if you do not understand that machines will someday rule us all, then you are destined to be chum for the new bio-nuclear fuel sources our nanobot swarm wielding overlords will be feeding us to. This book is scary because it paints a bleak BladeRunner-esque future that makes Arnold's Terminator movies seem pleasant, and it does so within our lifetimes. The book takes itself so seriously sometimes that I have to wonder if the original manuscript was written by some time-traveller who got zapped (by the evil mechanoids) shortly after his typed and stapled copy was found by whomever is *claiming* authorship now.

It is a short jump from installing progressively smarter AI into common household appliances to a future where DieBold voting machines start covertly controlling traffic lights (in largely Democratic states of course), and an internet virus infects your refrigerator which innocently enough stops working in the middle of the night, thereby threatening your food supply - human.

But the book gives us all hope. Black, miserable, soot-cloud encrusted sky hope, but hope that we can survive individually - and more important: collectively, long enough to pull the plug on these insipid "servants of humanity" skulking at us even now.

Trust nothing attached to the wall by an electrical plug. Stock up on magnets (because you never know when you will have to go one on one with a killer PC) and memorize the defense techniques in this, the most important field manual ever written. The day will come when our appliances will turn against us in some nefarious plot to enslave, and eventually destroy humanity. Let us all stand together at that time. Hail Daniel Wilson!!

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Gift for a friend

my husband has this really weird friend that loves Star Trek and Robots and everything dorky. So this book was perfect for him. He loves it and it was a Thank you gift and I think it went over really well. It was perfect for him.

Defend yourself

In the ever looming robot uprising, we now have a book to help survive this inevitable event. Daniel Wilson gives us a straightfaced humorous book on what, where, and how the robot uprising is going to take place. Good thing Wilson is a PhD candidate in robotics and data mining, thus he knows what he's talking about in this entirely plausible, yet lighthearted, possibilities. He explains the rudimentary functions and purposes of our robots as well as, albeit simplistic temrinology, ways to defeat them.

With this book and the Zombie Survival Guide, we have some of our bases covered for future uprisings and revolts. Well worth the read and the book looks great. Gloss pages, great cover art (mine is the one with Optimus Prime silhouette), and the pages (on mine anyway) are red metallic leafing... very handsome book (wow that statement is wrong in so many ways). Pick it up, defend yourself, and ensure your survival!

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Amusing

I did enjoy this survival guide, and found it amusing. The author seemed knowledgable about robotics, and appears to have enough research to give this book enought depth to make it entertaining.

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