Robots in Space - Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel : Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A False Dichotomy xi 1 The Human/Robot Debate 1 2 Human Spaceflight as Utopia 32 3 Promoting the Human Dimension 62 4 Robotic Spaceflight in Popular Culture 96 5 The New Space Race 125 6 Interstellar Flight and the Human Future in Space 162 7 Homo sapiens, Transhumanism, and the Postbiological Universe 191 8 An Alternative Paradigm? 220 Appendix: Inadequate Words 253 Notes 257 Index 303