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The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

byMalcolm Gay

Malcolm Gay uses The Brain Electric to investigate the Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines through a carefully framed social inquiry. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of computers and science. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. Together, these elements make The Brain Electric an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication date

Oct 11, 2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

282

ISBN

9780374536411