Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human - Couverture rigide

Chorost, Michael

 
9780618378296: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
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ISBN 10 : 0618378294 ISBN 13 : 9780618378296
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Chorost Michael

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Michael Chorost went completely deaf in his thirties and rather than live in silence he choose to have a computer surgically embedded in his skull, artificially restoring his hearing. This is the story of his journey, from silence to hearing, from human to cyborg, and how it transformed him. As Chorost reveals in a witty, poignant and perceptive memoir, when a human can plug himself directly into a CD player, can upgrade his hearing with new software, it forces him to confront what it means to be human in a machine age. This is a message from the technological frontier (a new world that was developed in the UK and Australia, as much as the USA), and a haunting evocation of the sounds that are all round us (until deafness strikes) that reassess what we hear, and how we experience the world, in an entirely new way.

Présentation de l'éditeur

After Michael Chorost suddenly lost what was left of his hearing, he took the radical step of having a cochlear implant -- a tiny computer -- installed in his head. A technological marvel, the device not only restored to him the world of sound but also could be routinely upgraded with new software. Despite his intitial fear of the technology's potentially dehumanizing effects, Chorost's implant allowed him to connect with others in surprising ways: as a cyborg, he learned about love, joined a writing group, and formed deeper friendships. More profoundly, his perception of the world around him was dramatically altered.

Brimming with insight and written with charm and self-deprecating humor, Rebuilt unveils, in personal terms, the astounding possibilities of a new technological age.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0618378294
ISBN 13 
9780618378296
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0285637509 ISBN 13 :  9780285637504
Editeur : Souvenir Press Ltd, 2006
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