Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man & Machine by Parker, Harry

97 in stock

199mm x 133mm x 23mm

Pages: 224

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

A gripping, eye-opening account of how technology is altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier

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

Harry Parkers life changed overnight when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. His rehabilitation took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered - are all humans becoming hybrids?

Whether its putting on contact lenses every day or DIY biohackers tinkering in garages, 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.

This may be a tour of the scientific avant garde, but the focus is always on the human heart and mind - Observer, Book of the Day

Harry Parker has explored the cutting edge of interaction between humanity, computing and AI ... a captivating and cautionary travel guide to a new world - Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being