Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0753813807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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But now, thanks to electrodes implanted around her right optic nerve, she can see lights, shapes and colours again. Marie is just one of a handful of people around the world who have had computer chips implanted in their bodies to extend, enhance or repair their senses. Are you any less 'you' after a bionic implant? If all our senses are electronically enhanced, how will we tell the difference between virtual reality and the actual world? How can privacy be ensured when computers are watching and listening to everything we do and say?. Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, has been totally blind since the age of 57. Drawing on fields as diverse as artificial intelligence and biology, THE BODY ELECTRIC provides an exciting synthesis of the people and technology making this convergence possible, while addressing the psychological, social and philosophical implications of these startling developments
James Geary is the author of El Mundo en Una Frase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. . He lives in London with his wife and three children
"Once Geary lures you in, the real fantastical hook is wondering how we failed to notice that the bionic age has already arrived." THE SCOTSMAN "It's a remarkablly fertile, imaginative read." FOCUS "Thankfully, the techonology still needs some tweaking." THE GUARDIAN "This is a fairly fascinating survey byTime magazine journalist James Geary of the current state of cybernetics, that frontier science where biology and technology are merging." THE INDEPENDENT
The Boom of Biotechnology and its implications Peter Uys The Body Electric deals with the science of the merging of biology and technology. In it, James Geary discusses the advances in biotechnology and provides a glance into the future when new technologies may replace organs and repair and enhance the senses. Devices made of silicon will eventually enhance the human brain and body. Informative, Entertaining, Magnificent In late 201Informative, Entertaining, Magnificent JJ In late 2014, somehow this 2002 book still feels like a brilliantly-composed note from the imminent future. Geary was roughly 20 years ahead of his time predictively reporting on the trajectory of technology developments -- including wearable computers, augmented reality, neural prosthetics, humanoid robotics, artificial intel. , somehow this 2002 book still feels like a brilliantly-composed note from the imminent future. Geary was roughly 20 years ahead of his time predictively reporting on the trajectory of technology developments -- including wearable computers, augmented reality, neural prosthetics, humanoid robotics, artificial intel