Beyond Human
Living with Robots and Cyborgs
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2008
- Category
- Biotechnology, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780765310835
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect? The next decade promises another qualitative shift in the way we view technology, as once purely fictional conceptsâ”robots, cyborg parts, and the many variations in betweenâ”become part of reality.
Beyond Human treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same phenomenon. Can we go too far in making ourselves machine-like or making machines resemble us? Once made, what will such creatures think about us? These questions will arise in myriad ways in the next few decades, as we press against boundaries that a short while ago existed only in works of the imagination. Written in a lively and provocative style, this is a readable book about the accumulation of small scientific advances that add up to something large and challenging.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Gregory Benford and Elizabeth Malartre both teach at the University of California and live in Irvine, California.