![]() ![]() HAL 9000, the sentient computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, offers an ominous glimpse of a future in which machines endowed with artificial intelligence reject human authority. Devious human masters and misunderstood commands are the real threat When and how should robots reject human commands for our own sake? A Must-read feature on Scientific American magazine on January, 2017 issue.ĭon’t worry about disobedient machines. Opening illustration concerning the controversial subject of Artificial Intelligence. The Folio Society edition of True Grit by Charles Portis is available exclusively from so, he’s packing his saddlebags and joining the search party. But there’s a catch: there’s an outstanding warrant on the killer, and debonair Texas Ranger LaBoeuf is hell-bent on claiming it. A one-eyed US Marshall with a taste for whiskey and a trigger-happy approach to law enforcement, Rooster Cogburn, is happy to take her money. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross wants to avenge her murdered father, but she can’t pull in the fugitive killer on her own, so she asks around town for the meanest gun for hire. Here you can see some of the illustrations. The edition is bound in printed and blocked cloth with a blocked slipcase in gold metallic ink. I created the binding illustration, the slipcase and 6 colour illustrations, including 2 double-page spreads and a black & white frontispiece for the insides. In an exercise of nostalgia, I tried to depict those vast landscapes, ruthless bandits and the strength and bravery of main characters in this beautiful edition. In its first sortie into western genre, The Folio Society commissioned me to illustrate Charles Portis' True Grit. ![]()
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