Intervolution - Smart Bodies Smart Things

Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What isartificial? Science fiction has long imagined a future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us--especially people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases--have functionally become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies. The combination of artificial intelligence with implants, transplants, prostheses, and genetic reprogramming is transforming medical research and treatment, and it is now also transforming what we thought was human nature.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Our Bodies Our Selves
2. Intranet of the Body
3. Internet of Things
4. Internet of Bodies
5. Intervolutionary Future
Notes
Index

About the author

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University. He is an artist and also the author of more than thirty books, including, most recently, Last Works: Lessons in Leaving (2018), Abiding Grace: Time: Modernity, Death (2018), and Seeing Silence (2020).

Summary

Mark C. Taylor explores how technological change is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. He reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.

Additional text

Contributes importantly to the discourse on the intersection of biology and technology...Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Mark C Taylor, Mark C. Taylor, Mark C. (Chair and Professor Taylor, Taylor Mark C.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780231198219
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19821-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: No Limits
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General