*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi OliverAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means to be human – from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a SoldierHarry Parker’s life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention – and intervention. Grappling 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.’I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past’ – Jeanette Winterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. Here he takes us on a journey through the exhilarating landscape of a very human kind of hacking, meeting those pushing the limits of our bodies and brains – and grappling with his own new identity and disability along the way. What happens when our lives become enmeshed with technology? Most of us are ‘coupled’ 24\/7 to our mobile phones, reliant on glasses, or pacemakers – but we are living in an era of dizzying new possibilities. Parker meets the soldiers having cutting-edge osseointegration, the first DIY cyborgs and biohackers tinkering in garages, and the scientists and surgeons pioneering the latest robotics and implants. He traces how they might lead us to powerful, liberating new possibilities for what a body can be – and how to be human is to be hybrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[98],"product_tag":[1906,160,259,99,4332],"class_list":["post-97684","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-nat-history-popular-science","product_tag-history-of-engineering-technology","product_tag-history-of-science","product_tag-memoirs","product_tag-popular-science","product_tag-society-social-sciences","pa_book_author-parker-harry","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-620-82-edition23","pa_imprint-wellcome-collection","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8580","pa_publisher-wellcome-collection","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n