Hybrid Humans

Name: Hybrid Humans
Author: Harry Parker

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Harry Parker

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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein

Beschreibung

*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 Oliver

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

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?

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

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I loved Hybrid Humans. It is modest, wise ... and a way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past

Hybrid Hymans is an argument for the work of salvage ... The cracks - the brokenness intimating precarity and mortality - create value and even beauty, as well as ways to connect with others

for more than a decade, Parker never forgets the realities of everyday life, which encompass both pain and beauty. This may be a tour of the scientific avant garde, but the focus is always on the human heart and mind
Fascinating ... Parker's writing is elegant and often lyrical ... As someone who has lived as a "hybrid"

Absorbing ... Parker takes us on a tour of the weird and wonderful world where man and machine meet

Harry Parker has explored the cutting edge of interaction between humanity, computing and AI ... a captivating and cautionary travel guide to a new world

A terrific writer

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