*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAs seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi OliverAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a SoldierHarry 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 becoming hybrids? 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.'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson
| ISBN: | 9781782835837 |
| Publication date: | 17th February 2022 |
| Author: | Harry Parker |
| Publisher: | Profile |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |