Hybrid Humans (eBook)

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Harry Parker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-583-7 (ISBN)

Infos

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi OliverAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a SoldierHarry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be.'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson

Rezensionen

Alive to every nuance of feeling

An endless ability to surprise

A tour de force

Compassionate and compelling

Beautifully constructed and moving

A brilliant book

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: AI • anatomy of a soldier • Cyborg • Disability • Mark O’Connell • prosthetics • Sex, robots and vegan meat • TO BE A MACHINE • Transhumanism
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-583-0 / 1782835830
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-583-7 / 9781782835837