L‘artificial intelligence? He’s also inside an artificial knee that senses his surroundings and performs actions that maximize the wearer’s ability to move.
So writes Harry Parker in Hybrid humans. How technology changes our bodyblown up by a mine in Afghanistan in 2009after the amputation of both legs and the adoption of two prostheses: “I have another brain inside my knee that makes me what I am”.
Hybrid humans
He defines himself as a “hybrid human”: the interaction with technology saved him from a loss and made him another person, made him find a new job, get married, have two children.
Harry Parker, Human Hybrids. How technology changes our body (Sureuro 20): it comes out on 6 September.
In the book he explores many of these devices, starting with the now obsolete iron lung, and thinks about the risks and potential of having bodies that blend man and machine.
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