Technophobia! : : Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology / / Daniel Dinello.
Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will comple...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dreams of Techno-Heaven, Nightmares of Techno-Hell
- One Technology Is God: Machine Transcendence
- Two Haunted Utopias: Artificial Humans and Mad Scientists
- Three Cybernetic Slaves: Robotics
- Four Machines Out of Control: Artificial Intelligence and Androids
- Five Rampaging Cyborgs: Bionics
- Six Infinite Cyberspace Cages: The Internet and Virtual Reality
- Seven Engineered Flesh: Biotechnology
- Eight Malevolent Molecular Machines: Nanotechnology
- Nine Technology Is a Virus: Machine Plague
- Ten Epilogue: Technophobia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index