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Intervolution
Smart Bodies Smart Things
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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) and Seeing Silence (2020).
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Jack Miles, author of Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story:
Imagine your body. Imagine in it an artificial pancreas, and in the pancreas, an artificial brain. Now imagine that brain networked to—and learning from—thousands of matching pancreas-brains. What you are now imagining Mark Taylor has experienced and turns here into an absolutely riveting introduction into how artificial intelligence will transform us from the inside out.
Imagine your body. Imagine in it an artificial pancreas, and in the pancreas, an artificial brain. Now imagine that brain networked to—and learning from—thousands of matching pancreas-brains. What you are now imagining Mark Taylor has experienced and turns here into an absolutely riveting introduction into how artificial intelligence will transform us from the inside out.
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1 Our Bodies Our Selves
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2 Intranet of the Body
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3 Internet of Things
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4 Internet of Bodies
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5 Intervolutionary Future
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Notes
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Index
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December 16, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231552530
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10 b&w illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9780231552530
Keywords for this book
Artificial Intelligence; AI; Internet of Things; insulin pump; medical technology; philosophy of technology
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
