The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines

by Bruce Mazlish and Professor Bruce Mazlish

Book Overview

From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to current films like The Terminator about menacing androids, writers have expressed concern about computers and biogenetic creations taking over or altering human life. In this engrossing and lively book, Bruce Mazlish discusses the complex relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical (our bodies increasingly hooked up to artificial parts), and of computer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065124
• ISBN13: 9780300065121
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"