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Deeply enjoyable...Chorost is at the vanguard of where most baby-boomers will end up--part human and part machine. --Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and author of Flesh and Machines Chorost takes us on an amazing intellectual journey...[and he] has a fine ear for language...A lovely book. --Robin Marantz Henig, author of Pandora's Baby and The Monk in the Garden Chorost is a quite amazing new writer whose prose spirits the reader across the sound barrier... --Sol Stein, author of Stein on Writing and (with James Baldwin) Native Sons Chorost has written a wonderfully fascinating account of banishing total deafness...Beethoven would be encouraged. --Manfred Clynes, coiner of the term cyborg and Professor of Biophysics at Georgetown University This is a terrific book--an eyewitness bulletin from the borderlands where technology and bodies clash and meld. I read it through in one huge chomp, shouting and chortling at this adventure or that. Chorost pulls off the high-wire stunt of conveying scientific accuracy about a complex biomedical topic while writing with the cliffhanger excitement of an action adventure videogame. --Allucquere Rosanne Stone, author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age An exemplary first-person account of becoming a cyborg. Rebuilt combines technical and philosophical erudition with fine writing. --Chris Hables Gray, author of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age and editor of The Cyborg Handbook Rebuilt is a heartfelt exploration of technologically mediated perception...Chorost's journey is that of humanity itself. -- Andy Clark, author of Natural-Born Cyborgs Readers will find much food for thought . . . in this beautifully written debut. Publishers Weekly A real marvel is Michael Chorost...he brings to his fascinating subject great intellectual clarity...compelling. --Jenny Davidson The Village Voice By far the most original, honest, and authoritative book I've read on human-machine interfaces. --John Horgan, The Chronicle of Higher Education An artfully frank account, Chorost's story will vitally engage people interested in the increasingly prevalent surgical procedure. --Gilbert Taylor Booklist, ALA Moving...The most hopeful thing I've read in quite a while. --Annalee Newitz, San Francisco Bay Guardian Graceful, poetic . . . this is a book that will make you think and, ultimately, make you smile. Library Journal Starred Funny and thoughtful...[Chorost's] awareness of life's fragility...strikes me as the perfect answer to opponents of implants...invaluable. --Alex Soojung-Kim Pang The Los Angeles Times --

Deeply enjoyable...Chorost is at the vanguard of where most baby-boomers will end up--part human and part machine. --Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and author of Flesh and Machines Chorost takes us on an amazing intellectual journey...[and he] has a fine ear for language...A lovely book. --Robin Marantz Henig, author of Pandora's Baby and The Monk in the Garden Chorost is a quite amazing new writer whose prose spirits the reader across the sound barrier... --Sol Stein, author of Stein on Writing and (with James Baldwin) Native Sons Chorost has written a wonderfully fascinating account of banishing total deafness...Beethoven would be encouraged. --Manfred Clynes, coiner of the term cyborg and Professor of Biophysics at Georgetown University This is a terrific book--an eyewitness bulletin from the borderlands where technology and bodies clash and meld. I read it through in one huge chomp, shouting and chortling at this adventure or that. Chorost pulls off the high-wire stunt of conveying scientific accuracy about a complex biomedical topic while writing with the cliffhanger excitement of an action adventure videogame. --Allucquere Rosanne Stone, author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age An exemplary first-person account of becoming a cyborg. Rebuilt combines technical and philosophical erudition with fine writing. --Chris Hables Gray, author of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age and editor of The Cyborg Handbook Rebuilt is a heartfelt exploration of technologically mediated perception...Chorost's journey is that of humanity itself. -- Andy Clark, author of Natural-Born Cyborgs Readers will find much food for thought . . . in this beautifully written debut. Publishers Weekly A real marvel is Michael Chorost...he brings to his fascinating subject great intellectual clarity...compelling. --Jenny Davidson The Village Voice By far the most original, honest, and authoritative book I've read on human-machine interfaces. --John Horgan, The Chronicle of Higher Education An artfully frank account, Chorost's story will vitally engage people interested in the increasingly prevalent surgical procedure. --Gilbert Taylor Booklist, ALA Moving...The most hopeful thing I've read in quite a while. --Annalee Newitz, San Francisco Bay Guardian Graceful, poetic . . . this is a book that will make you think and, ultimately, make you smile. Library Journal Starred Funny and thoughtful...[Chorost's] awareness of life's fragility...strikes me as the perfect answer to opponents of implants...invaluable. --Alex Soojung-Kim Pang The Los Angeles Times--No Source

Readers will find much food for thought . . . in this beautifully written debut.

"""Deeply enjoyable...Chorost is at the vanguard of where most baby-boomers will end up--part human and part machine."" --Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and author of Flesh and Machines ""Chorost takes us on an amazing intellectual journey...[and he] has a fine ear for language...A lovely book."" --Robin Marantz Henig, author of Pandora's Baby and The Monk in the Garden ""Chorost is a quite amazing new writer whose prose spirits the reader across the sound barrier..."" --Sol Stein, author of Stein on Writing and (with James Baldwin) Native Sons ""Chorost has written a wonderfully fascinating account of banishing total deafness...Beethoven would be encouraged."" --Manfred Clynes, coiner of the term ""cyborg"" and Professor of Biophysics at Georgetown University ""This is a terrific book--an eyewitness bulletin from the borderlands where technology and bodies clash and meld. I read it through in one huge chomp, shouting and chortling at this adventure or that. Chorost pulls off the high-wire stunt of conveying scientific accuracy about a complex biomedical topic while writing with the cliffhanger excitement of an action adventure videogame."" --Allucquére Rosanne Stone, author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age ""An exemplary first-person account of becoming a cyborg. Rebuilt combines technical and philosophical erudition with fine writing."" --Chris Hables Gray, author of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age and editor of The Cyborg Handbook ""Rebuilt is a heartfelt exploration of technologically mediated perception...Chorost's journey is that of humanity itself."" -- Andy Clark, author of Natural-Born Cyborgs ""Readers will find much food for thought . . . in this beautifully written debut."" Publishers Weekly ""A real marvel is Michael Chorost...he brings to his fascinating subject great intellectual clarity...compelling."" --Jenny Davidson The Village Voice ""By far the most original, honest, and authoritative book I've read on human-machine interfaces."" --John Horgan, The Chronicle of Higher Education ""An artfully frank account, Chorost's story will vitally engage people interested in the increasingly prevalent surgical procedure."" --Gilbert Taylor Booklist, ALA ""Moving...The most hopeful thing I've read in quite a while."" --Annalee Newitz, San Francisco Bay Guardian ""Graceful, poetic . . . this is a book that will make you think and, ultimately, make you smile."" Library Journal Starred ""Funny and thoughtful...[Chorost's] awareness of life's fragility...strikes me as the perfect answer to opponents of implants...invaluable."" --Alex Soojung-Kim Pang The Los Angeles Times --"

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Michael Chorost has a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in San Francisco, where he writes, teaches, and consults.

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