Bibliograph

Rebuilt, how becoming part computer made me more human, Michael Chorost

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Rebuilt, how becoming part computer made me more human, Michael Chorost

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rebuilt

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57641575

Responsibility statement

Michael Chorost

Sub title

how becoming part computer made me more human

Summary

Michael Chorost became a cyborg the day his new ear was booted up. Born hard of hearing, he went completely deaf in his thirties. Rather than live in silence, he chose to have a computer surgically embedded in his skull to restore his hearing. This is the story of Chorost's journey--from deafness to hearing, from human to cyborg--and how it transformed him. The melding of silicon and flesh has long been the stuff of science fiction, but as Chorost reveals in this memoir, fantasy is now giving way to reality. He found his new body mystifyingly mechanical: he could plug himself directly into a CD player; his hearing was routinely upgraded with new software. All this forced him to confront complex questions about humans in the machine age: When the senses become programmable, can we trust what they tell us about the world? --From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Broken -- Surgery -- Between two worlds -- Activation -- Forget about reality -- The computer reprograms me -- Upgrading -- The logic I loved and hated -- A kinship with the machines -- A kinship with the humans -- The technologies of human potential -- Mike 2.0

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