Heart of the machine: our future in a world of artificial emotional intelligence

A futurist view

The road to affective computing. The dawn of emotional machines ; How emotion bootstrapped the first technological revolution ; Building the future ; Tell us how you feel ; Launching the emotion economy ; Kismet and the robots

The rise of emotional machines. The uncanny Valley of the Dolls ; Learning affectively ; Marching into a minefield ; Sentimental fools ; Who will really care? ; Mixing it up

The future of artificial emotional intelligence. The love machines ; AI in the family ; FeelGood, Inc. ; Window in the dark : AIs in fiction ; For better and for worse ; Will AIs dream of electric sheep?