[SC.LUG] Fwd: [sheflug] How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

[David Holden]

May be on interests to folk here.

Dave.


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Subject: [sheflug] How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
Date: Wednesday 08 Mar 2006 12:48
From: Richard Ibbotson <richard at sheflug.co.uk>
To: sheflug at sheflug.co.uk

Hi

Although it's nothing to do with open source software the following
event at Countrybookshop might be of interest to some people out
there. Please forward it to interested parties.

Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
Speaker : Michael Chorost
Date and Time  :  Saturday 29th of April 7.30 pm.
Venue : Countrybookshop, Hassop Station, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45
1NW.  Tel: 01629 816701 / 01629 813444  Tickets  :£ 3.00

Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human  is my story of
becoming a cyborg.  It's a scientific memoir of going deaf and getting
my hearing back with a cochlea implant, that is, a computer embedded
in my skull.  Science fiction writers and filmmakers have speculated
about cyborgs (human-computer fusions) for decades, but in this book
I reveal what it's really like to have part of one's body controlled
by a computer.Authors website is at http://www.michaelchorost.com .
Author is based in San Francisco.


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Richard

W: www.countrybookshop.co.uk
Independent shop with over 3 million  titles
and a brilliant cafe with some nice food.

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