Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

Chorost, Michael

ISBN 10: 0618378294 / ISBN 13: 9780618378296

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. N° de réf. du vendeur U14A-03826

Synopsis :

Book by Chorost Michael

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me ...
Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette