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Hybrid Humans
- Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
- Narrated by: Harry Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
Is your mobile phone thinking for you? Do your rely more on Google than your own memory?
Harry Parker's life changed overnight when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans hybrids?
Whether it's putting on contact lenses every day or DIY biohackers tinkering in garages, Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be.
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"I loved Hybrid Humans. It is modest, wise...and a way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past." (Jeanette Winterson)
"Harry Parker has explored the cutting edge of interaction between humanity, computing and AI...a captivating and cautionary travel guide to a new world." (Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being)
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-03-22
A thought provoking book on the current and future blurring of the boundaries between humans and machines
Parker’s engaging account builds on his experience as as former soldier with two prosthetic legs. It is an illuminating journey through an increasingly important part of the human experience
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-02-23
6 stars
Once in a blue moon you come across a book that you wish Audible allowed you to award 6 stars to. This is such a book. Harry gives you an insight into a past, current and potential future world, and enables you to build an empathetic appreciation of the amazing human body and our use of tech as lived by so many. A total 'must read'.
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- Sofie Benjaminsen
- 12-04-23
Brilliant!
A really thoughtful, thought provoking and well-written book that I consumed in one day. It is an interesting blend of personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, interviews and history. It certainly made me think about my own prejudices, biases and attitudes to disability and technology. I am already thinking about the friends to whom I will recommend it too.
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