From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology And Technology in a Postmodern World (Ashgate Science and ... Brent Waters Ashgate Publishing, 2006 Technology is one of the dominant forces shaping the emerging postmodern world. Indeed the very fabric of daily life is dependent upon various information, communication, and transportation technologies. With anticipated advances in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics, that dependence will increase. Yet this growing dependence is accompanied with a deep ambivalence. For many, ...             Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids1 review Sidney Perkowitz Joseph Henry Press, 2004 Outstanding Analysis of the Rise of Bionic Humans The quest for immortality has been a persistent theme in human history. From the mythology of ancient Greece through the ages to the present we have sought limitless life. Stories of vampires, for instance, are in part predicated on the quest for eternal life. So is the story of Frankenstein. But ...             Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind26 reviews Hans Moravec Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Automation and quality of life + Exceeds expectations created by its title + IS + On Speculating about the ultimate future of intelligence + Very intriguing read             Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future10 reviews James Hughes Basic Books, 2004 Pondering the Post-human--It Portends a Plethora of Problems + This is a seminal work of Evolutionary Bioethics + Interesting look at humanity's future + David Ishalom India             Cyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future1 review David Hakken Routledge, 1999 Interesting subject As social constructivism goes this book is engaging and made me question my cyber life. It helped me write a brief paper. I am happy to say I enjoyed his delineation of the topics of cyberspace ethnography and feel they are valid. I was amazed at his sharing a professional reputation episode of ...             The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology127 reviews Ray Kurzweil Viking Adult, 2005 upon reading it a second time... + The Singularity + Insightful, but not gripping + Really makes you wonder + Excellent Roadmap of the Potential Future             The Cyborg Handbook5 reviews Chris Gray Routledge, 1995 Holding a coveted spot on my shelf + A Perfectionist's Perspective on The Cyborg Handbook + We Have Been Assimilated + Highly stimulating yet dry at times             More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement12 reviews Ramez Naam Broadway, 2005 Unusual because it mixes realism and optimism so well + Great book that puts life into perspective. + More than Interesting + Explains Biological Enhancement For Everyone             The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 Allison Muri University of Toronto Press, 2007 For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic processes - is firmly rooted in the post-modern, post-industrial, post-Enlightenment, post-nature, post-gender, or post-human culture of the late twentieth century. Allison Muri argues, however, that there is a long and rich tradition of art and philosophy that explores the equivalence of human and ...             Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human31 reviews Joel Garreau Broadway, 2006 Dense exploration of the technological explosion to come + Good introduction to the field + Will Humans Prevail + Snappy, insightful, with a great bibliography + A good overview of biotechnology             The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence180 reviews Ray Kurzweil Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000 A Book that everybody should read. + Should be called The Age of Thinking Machines Since I get into contact with the Vinge's singularity concept I developed a very great attraction for the matter. Ray Kurzweil explains it in a easy, not alarming and optimistic way. After reading The Age of Spiritual Machines and his later book the Singularity is near I can not understand how ...             Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World36 reviews Michael Chorost Mariner Books, 2006 Great book for HOH, deaf, DEAF, and even those with perfect ears. + Being Part Computer Makes You More Human! Excellent Book + Insightful... and a peek at the future + My Ears Needed This             Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence9 reviews Andy Clark Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Superb Analysis of the Human/Machine Symbiosis + Cyborgs in the Flesh + Yes, we certainly are cyborgs! + A recommended read but has some weaknesses...             The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines1 review Bruce Mazlish Yale University Press, 1995 The human-machine relationship: history of an idea Are humans fundamentally different from machines? Can machines ever be human like? I read this book after watching the movie Artifical Intelligence starring Robin Williams as the automaton who become increasingly human. The movie reminded me that the ideas MIT history professor Bruce Mazlish ...             Machine Dreams Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science4 reviews Philip Mirowski Cambridge University Press, 2001 Undecidable econ vs. Perfect Rationality + Impressive and fun + Note added later I've read about 250 pages and can recommend that anyone with an interest in economics and finance should read this fantastic book. The basis for the text are the contributions of Shannon, Turing, von Neumann, Wiener, Koopmans, Marshak, and Arrow. Mirowski tells us the main story of the interaction ...             Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age6 reviews Chris Habl Gray Routledge, 2002 A man with a vision + An intriguing survey of changing images of civil rights + Call Me Cyborg Not only does his book have a dazzling perspective into all the ways that the body is modified within modern practice he also brings it to a level that even the most novice of readers can grasp. Having been a philosophy student of Mr. Gray's in 1997 I must say it is not quite as enlightening as ...             Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film (New practices of inquiry)2 reviews Janice Hocker Rushing, Thomas S. Frentz University Of Chicago Press, 1995 More here than immediately meets the eye..... + Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film This book can be read and enjoyed on the surface for what it is.....analysis of archetypes of human experience as expressed in the dominant method of 'storytelling' in our present culture-the motion picture. It's entertaining at that and I recommend it. It can also be considered, IMO, as a ...             Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values4 reviews Thomas Georges, Thomas M. Georges Basic Books, 2003 Where are we going? + One of Several Useful Books on Artificial Intelligence, but not an Exceptional One And will "we" still be here when we get there? Digital Soul is about the nature of our world when machines become as intelligent as humans and beyond. It is also about the nature of those machines. It is clear that Georges has thought long and hard about the subject, has read widely and has ...             Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (School of American ... Gary Lee Downey;Joseph Dumit;Donna Haraway;Deborah Heath;David J. Hess;Frederick Klemmer;Juan C. Lucena;Emily Martin ;Laury Oaks;Paul Rabinow;Rayna Rapp;Karen-Sue Taussig;Sharon Traweek;Ariane Van Der Straten ;Sarah Williams SAR Press, 1998 From a week-long seminar in October 1993 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11 essays explore such questions as the Citadel problem of how science gains authority to direct truth practices; the boundaries between humans and machines; and the Cyborg problem of how science, technology, and medicine contribute             Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric Diane Greco Eastgate Systems Inc, 1995 This title is published on a 3.5" disk (Mac and Windows). Part human and part machine, the cyborg is a familiar figure in cyberpunk science fiction. But this figure looms ever larger -- as metaphor and as reality -- in all our lives. Today, cyborgs are real; in cyberspace, we are all cyborgs. Greco explores the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and ...