Extract & interview @ "The Page 99 Test"

Contents

Foreword, by Warren Ellis

Preface: The Stark Reality of Robotics

PART I. IT’S MORE THAN SKIN DEEP: Tony learns to live inside a suit of iron

Chapter 1. Origins of the Iron Knight: Bionics, Robotic Armor, and Anthropomorphic Suits

Chapter 2. Building the Body with Biology: When the Man of Metal Needs to Muscle In

Chapter 3. Accessing the Brain of the Armored Avenger: Can We Connect the Cranium to a Computer?

The First Decades of Iron: “He Lives! He Walks! He Conquers!”

PART II. USE IT AND LOSE IT: Will time tarnish the Golden Avenger?

Chapter 4. Multitasking and the Metal Man:How Much Can Iron Man’s Mind Manage?

Chapter 5. Softening up a Superhero: Why the Man with a Suit of Iron Could Get a Jelly Belly

Chapter 6. Brain Drain: Will Tony’s Gray Matter Give Way?

The Next Decades of Iron: “I Can Envision the Future”

PART III. ARMORED AVENGER IN ACTION: If we build it, what will come?

Chapter 7. Trials and Tribulations of the Tin Man: What Happens When the Human Machine Breaks Down

Chapter 8. Visions of the Vitruvian Man: Is Invention Really Only One Part Inspiration?

Chapter 9. Deal or No Deal? Could Iron Man Exist?

Appendix: Ten Momentous Moments of the Metal Man

Bibliography