Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

Chorost, Michael

ISBN 10: 0285637509 / ISBN 13: 9780285637504

Published by Souvenir Press Ltd, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0285637509
• ISBN 13: 9780285637504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

One of the most pressing debates of our age is outlined in insightful, humorous prose that asks all the big questions. This is a fascinating personal journey, with a wider importance than the personal. Its issues will be widely debated in the media on publication. The serialisation is under negotiation. The author tour, included a high profile speaking engagement for the publication launch. Michael Chorost became a cyborg when he had a computer surgically embedded in his skull to artificially restore his hearing. Chorost went from deafness to hearing, from human to cyborg. The combination of flesh and computer has long been a science fiction staple, but this witty, illuminating memoir outlines how that fantasy is becoming reality. Chorost reveals how his body becomes more mechanical, he can plug himself directly into a CD player, his hearing is upgraded as new software is developed. He confronts the role of human in a machine age: if the senses are programmable, can they be trusted; are cyborgs still human? This is a brilliant despatch from the technological frontier, a report of the possibilities of the technological age.

About the Author

Michael Chorost is a science writer and consultant on educational computing.