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Carregando... The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human (edição: 2017)de Adam Piore (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Half of the book its about body reconstituting-reengineering and the other half is about brain plasticity.. a good book! ( ) An interesting overview of basically how weird our bodies and brains are and how to take advantage of that weirdness to help people. Piore talks about the ethical lines a bit...where's the line between helping people to function normally and helping people become super-human, or using this technology for nefarious purposes like making them think or behave differently based on your own ideas of how it is moral to think or behave. I did disagree with him on one point - he said he was relieved to know that we still hadn't cracked the why's behind things like creativity and love, because some things should just stay mysterious. I say nah. I'm not one to think that knowing how or why something works makes it less beautiful or meaningful. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being human For millennia, humans have tried--and often failed--to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize mankind. In The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering--which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, and augment human beings--and paints a vivid portrait of the people at its center. Chronicling the ways new technology has retooled our physical expectations and mental processes, Piore visits people who have regrown parts of their fingers and legs in the wake of terrible traumas, tries on a muscle suit that allows him to lift ninety pounds with his fingertips, dips into the race to create "Viagra for the brain," and shadows the doctors trying to give mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically. As science continues to lay bare the mysteries of human performance, it is helping us to see--and exist--above our expectations. The Body Builders will take readers beyond the headlines and the hype to introduce them to the inner workings and the outer reaches of our bodies and minds, and explore how new developments are changing, and will forever change, what is possible for humankind. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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