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Article: The controversial city professor with a extraordinary vision of the future. But are his ideas . . . FACT - OR CRAZY SCIENCE FICTION?; The father of two was dubbed Britain's leading prophet of the robot age by X Files star Gillian Anderson and British Airways was once flummoxed when he tried to book a seat on a flight for a robotic cat.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2002
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Byline: PAULA HALL
A FORMER Coventry telephone engineer who is now a professor of cybernetics, has come up with a microchip enabling parents to tag their children. Following the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, one family has already volunteered to have its children "chipped" by Prof Warwick. PAULA HALL reports on the career of the controversial scientist.
MANY people and robots helped me make this book possible," writes Prof Kevin Warwick in his autobiography.
The fact that anyone might include robots in their acknowledgements gives a ...