Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Is it a threat or a benefit? Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors presents the ominous, and some encouraging, stories of how technology has shaped our past and might shape our future. It dives into the question of mankind's future. An exhilarating and troubling read, it looks at whether robots and technology are a threat or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include ...

• Robocops and robots in the police force
• Robots replacing people in the workplace
  
• The high tech of ancient times
  
• Clones, androids, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots
  
• CIA plots to control our minds
• The sentient internet
• Monitoring our every move with microchip implants
• The threat of unfathomable alien intelligence and technology
• The singularity of uncontrollable and irreversible supplanting of human intelligence with technological intelligence
  
• Science fiction and science fact--and how science fiction foreshadowed the future
• Clandestine technological dangers and government mind-control plots
• Robotic limbs, androids and half-humans
• The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality
• Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct
• And much, much more.

With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of the menace of robots, artificial intelligence, and technology of the past, present, and future. Exciting and worrisome, Runaway Science looks at past horrors and future dangers of technology!