Hybrid Humans

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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Beschreibung

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE*<br>*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver<br><br>An 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 Soldier<br><br>Harry 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? <br><br>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.<br><br>'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781788163118

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 127 x 19 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Profile Books Ltd