Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

Michael Chorost

ISBN 10: 0618378294 / ISBN 13: 9780618378296

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95. N° de réf. du vendeur G0618378294I2N00

Synopsis :

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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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me ...
Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : As New
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket