Cyborg: How Humans Are Becoming Machines |
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Editor:
| Wallis, Lynley A. Burke, Heather Gorman, Alice C. |
ISBN: | 978-0-9945056-6-8 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2022 |
Publisher: | Wallis Heritage Consulting
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | AUD $0.00 |
Book Description:
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When we think of cyborgs, we might conjure up the collective hive-mind of The Borg from 'Star Trek', or science fiction writer Alastair Reynold's chimeric starship residents, half their bodies taken up by prosthetic limbs and organs. Cyborgs are futuristic meldings of the biological and the artificial; something created rather than evolved. Or are they?
When we think of cyborgs, we might conjure up the collective hive-mind of The Borg from 'Star Trek', or science fiction writer Alastair Reynold's chimeric starship residents, half their bodies taken up by prosthetic limbs and organs. Cyborgs are futuristic meldings of the biological and the artificial; something created rather than evolved. Or are they?