Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human
暫譯: 超級你:科技如何革新人類的意義
Andy Walker, Kay Svela Walker, Sean Carruthers
- 出版商: QUE
- 出版日期: 2016-06-25
- 售價: $1,190
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,131
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 352
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 078975486X
- ISBN-13: 9780789754868
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商品描述
Rewind Your Biology and Live Like a 20-Year-Old! Edit Your Genes to Live Disease-Free! Find a Parking Space with Your Internet-Connected Brain!
Advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics will make all this possible!
This is not science fiction. This is your future. Right now, pioneering scientists and technologists are transforming what it means to be human by overcoming biological limits that have existed since our ancestors swung out of the trees…and into the suburbs. With incredible inspiration and perseverance, these visionaries are solving deep problems of human health and longevity—and their progress is accelerating. Super You takes you inside their labs, companies, and minds…to show how you can reap the benefits of a stronger, longer, better, life. You’ll learn how to start hacking your life today, to become more super, every day. Discover what’s possible when yesterday’s human limits are gone!
Advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics will make all this possible!
This is not science fiction. This is your future. Right now, pioneering scientists and technologists are transforming what it means to be human by overcoming biological limits that have existed since our ancestors swung out of the trees…and into the suburbs. With incredible inspiration and perseverance, these visionaries are solving deep problems of human health and longevity—and their progress is accelerating. Super You takes you inside their labs, companies, and minds…to show how you can reap the benefits of a stronger, longer, better, life. You’ll learn how to start hacking your life today, to become more super, every day. Discover what’s possible when yesterday’s human limits are gone!
- Learn how evolution became obsolete—and why it’s time to start hacking yourself
- Save your life with whirring “jet engine” hearts, printed organs, and other medical miracles
- Rewire and turbo-boost your ape brain
- Become a mega-mind by connecting your brain directly to the Internet to use Google’s synthetic neocortex
- Become superhuman with cyborg technology
- Design and mold your looks
- Genetically engineer your baby to be a tennis star (and other true stories)
- Prepare for the political and religious backlash against the future
- Discover how scientists will make death obsolete by treating it like a curable disease—and how to live until they do
商品描述(中文翻譯)
重啟你的生物學,像20歲一樣生活!編輯你的基因以過上無病的生活!用你的網路連接大腦找到停車位!
長壽、基因學、奈米技術和機器人技術的進步將使這一切成為可能!
這不是科幻小說。這是你的未來。現在,開創性的科學家和技術專家正在改變成為人類的意義,克服自我們的祖先從樹上搖擺而下以來就存在的生物限制……並進入郊區。這些有著驚人靈感和毅力的先驅者正在解決人類健康和長壽的深層問題——而他們的進展正在加速。超級你將帶你走進他們的實驗室、公司和思想……展示你如何獲得更強、更長、更好的生活的好處。你將學會如何從今天開始駭客你的生活,讓自己每天變得更超級。發現當昨日的人類極限消失時,會有什麼可能!
- 了解進化如何變得過時——以及為什麼是時候開始駭客自己
- 用嗡嗡作響的“噴氣引擎”心臟、印刷器官和其他醫療奇蹟拯救你的生命
- 重新連接並加速你的猿類大腦
- 通過將你的大腦直接連接到互聯網,成為超級智慧,使用谷歌的合成新皮層
- 利用機器人技術成為超人
- 設計和塑造你的外貌
- 基因工程你的寶寶成為網球明星(以及其他真實故事)
- 為未來的政治和宗教反彈做好準備
- 發現科學家將如何通過將死亡視為可治療的疾病來使其過時——以及如何活到他們做到這一點