How Growing Up in Oklahoma Got Daniel Wilson Excited About Robots

Former roboticist Daniel Wilson made a huge splash several years ago with his non fiction book How to live a Robot Uprising , and then fix his optic implants on writing fabrication . His unveiling novel Robopocalypse was a vast bestseller , and is set to become a Steven Spielberg pic . And now he ’s got a new novel out , Amped , about people in the near future tense who get cybernetic implants — and possibly become a raw variety of human .

We involve Wilson what it was that first got him interested in robotics . Here ’s what he had to say . In this video recording , he speak about his early inspiration as a kid produce up in rural Oklahoma . Living in the Bible Belt , he said , he discovered that scientific discipline was the only thing that made sense to him . Plus , robotics are just cool . “ I do n’t know why everybody does n’t become a roboticist , ” he said .

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