Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

Chorost, Michael

ISBN 10: 0618378294 / ISBN 13: 9780618378296

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005

A propos de cet article

First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the title page: "Michael Chorost." The book is unmarked; spine slant; one corner and spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $24.00); a vertical crease to the front flap; Brodart protected.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0618378294
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780618378296
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good +
• État de la jaquette: Very Good +
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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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.