Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs by Benford, Gregory

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765310835)

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Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs by Benford, Gregory

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

$16.99
Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs by Benford, Gregory

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

$16.99
Format: Paperback
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Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect? The next decade promises another qualitative shift in the way we view technology, as once purely fictional concepts--robots, cyborg parts, and the many variations in between--become part of reality.

Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre's Beyond Human treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same phenomenon. Can we go too far in making ourselves machine-like or making machines resemble us? Once made, what will such creatures think about us? These questions will arise in myriad ways in the next few decades, as we press against boundaries that a short while ago existed only in works of the imagination. Written in a lively and provocative style, this is a readable book about the accumulation of small scientific advances that add up to something large and challenging.

Author: Gregory Benford, Elisabeth Malartre
ISBN-10: 076531083X
ISBN-13: 9780765310835
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
By Gregory Benford
By Gregory Benford
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GREGORY BENFORD teaches at the University of California and lives in Irvine, California. Benford is a winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. In1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. Benford conducts research in plasma turbulence theory and experimentation, and in astrophysics. He has published well over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.

ELIZABETH MALARTRE is the pen name for a biologist and writer living in Laguna Beach. She is a multiple-award winning environmentalist with a 25-year career in land preservation. Her current research centers on the Pandora moth in the Eastern Sierra in California.

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