{"product_id":"hybrid-humans-1","title":"Hybrid Humans","description":"*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE*\n\nAs heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week\nAs seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver\n\nAn eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier\n\nHarry Parker's life changed overnight when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. His rehabilitation took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered - are all humans becoming hybrids? \n\nWhether it's putting on contact lenses every day or DIY biohackers tinkering in garages, Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. \n\nGrappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be.\n\n\"I loved Hybrid Humans. It is modest, wise ... and a way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past\" - Jeanette Winterson\n\n\"This may be a tour of the scientific avant garde, but the focus is always on the human heart and mind\" - Observer, Book of the Day\n\n\"Harry Parker has explored the cutting edge of interaction between humanity, computing and AI ... a captivating and cautionary travel guide to a new world\" - Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220845515096,"sku":"9781788163101","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781788163101__67c1f302190f0_9910ba1c-8bcf-4733-87e9-6f51ea74e3a8.jpg?v=1741158920","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hybrid-humans-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}