How We Became Posthuman

Author: N. Katherine Hayles
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226321460

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. Download How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.

Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and Search and find a lot of computer books in many category availabe for free download.

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