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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Feral House: May 2005

Seller ID: 271229

ISBN: 0922915989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Read it and you will never think of civilization in the same way again."--Kirkpatrick Sale

This anthology about "the pathology of civilization" offers insight into how progress and technology have led to emptiness and alienation.

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

By: Siegel, Lee

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: January 2008

Seller ID: 270751

ISBN: 0385522657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the author dubbed by New York Times Magazine as one of the countrys most eloquent and acid-tongued critics comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet.
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

By: Turkle, Sherry

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Basic Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 276755

ISBN: 0465010210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.

In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-...
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Appropriate Technology: Technology With a Human Face

By: Dunn, Peter

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Schocken Books: May 1979

Seller ID: 270766

ISBN: 0805206116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life

By: Marcus Wohlsen

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Current: April 2011

Seller ID: 254715

ISBN: 1617230022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech companies and academic researchers are just beginning to unlock the potential of piecing together life from scratch. Champions of synthetic biology believe that turning genetic code into Lego-like blocks to build never-before-seen organisms could solve the thorniest challenges in medicine, energy, and environmental protec...
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Birth & Death & Cybernation (Social Change Series)

By: Ryan, Paul

Price: $61.50

Publisher: Routledge: January 1973

Seller ID: 270724

ISBN: 0677043201

Condition: Used - Very Good

Computers, Ethics, and Society

By: M. David Ermann, Mary B. Williams, Michele S. Shauf

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: March 1997

Seller ID: 161577

ISBN: 019510756X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Computers can have both a positive and negative impact on our lives. As they become increasingly important, these machines have the potential to deprive us of our privacy and even the jobs we need to support ourselves. On the other hand, they can enhance the quality of human life by producing unimagined freedom from drudgery and want. Ideal for students in sociology, philosophy, and computer science courses, Computers, Ethics, and Society serves as a reminder that although technology has the potential to improve or undermine our quality of life, it is society which has the power to ultimately ...
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Critical Theory of Technology

By: Andrew Feenberg

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: October 1991

Seller ID: 69894

ISBN: 0195068556

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Modern technology is more than a neutral tool: it is the framework of our civilization and shapes our way of life. Social critics claim that we must choose between this way of life and human values. Critical Theory of Technology challenges that pessimistic cliche. This pathbreaking book argues that the roots of the degradation of labor, education, and the environment lie not in technology per se but in the cultural values embodied in its design. Rejecting such popular solutions as economic simplicity or spiritual renewal, Feenberg presents a compelling argument for broader democratic participa...
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Crossing the Postmodern Divide

By: Albert Borgmann

Price: $6.98

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: June 1993

Seller ID: 69886

ISBN: 0226066274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated vision of what this new era, at its best, has in store.

" This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."-Joseph Coates, The Chicago Tribune <...
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Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology

By: Jeri Fink

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Prometheus Books: December 1999

Seller ID: 161579

ISBN: 1573927430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Born from today's evolutionary psychology and its studies of developing human behavior and emotions is the radical new concept from psychotherapist Jeri Fink that virtual reality has been with us since humans first walked the earth and has only been heightened by today's technology. Psychologically, humans are "wired" to crave experiences beyond our daily existence. From the cave dweller's fireside stories of slaying massive beasts and the Elizabethan experience of Shakespeare's tragedies to today's blockbuster disaster movies and, most importantly, interactive computer communication, we have ...
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Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present

By: Krause, Professor Elliott A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 270748

ISBN: 0300067585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

An analysis of the autonomy and leverage of modern professional groups - medicine, law, university teaching, engineering - in the US and Europe. Finding that each group has experienced a decline in its power, it considers the implications for professionals and those they serve.
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Digitized: The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World

By: Peter J. Bentley

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 81456

ISBN: 019969379X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life, a science so powerful that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. It is the science behind computers, the machines which drive the supply and creation of power, food, medicine, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods our stores. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks, and GPS technologies.

Written in friendly and approachable language, Digitized provides a window onto the mysterious ...
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Exodus To The Virtual World

By: Edward Castronova

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Griffin: November 2008

Seller ID: 226094

ISBN: 0230607853

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around fun. Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? Exodus to the Virtual World explai...
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Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security --An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State

By: Brzezinski, Matthew

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Bantam: August 2004

Seller ID: 271521

ISBN: 0553803662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security --An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State

By: Brzezinski, Matthew

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Bantam: August 2004

Seller ID: 279096

ISBN: 0553803662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

By: Jerry Mander

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1978

Seller ID: 213825

ISBN: 0688082742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.

Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies...
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

By: Shirky, Clay

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: February 2009

Seller ID: 273003

ISBN: 0143114948

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An extraordinary exploration of how technology can empower social and political organizers

For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global scale are not solely in the hands of governments or institutions. The spread of the internet and mobile phones are changing how people come together and get things done--and sparking a revolution that, as Clay Shirky shows, is changing what we do, how we do it, and even who we are. Here, we encounter a whoman who loses her phone and recruits an army of volunteers to get it back from the person who stole it. A dissatisfied air...
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How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

By: Lienhard, John H.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 270429

ISBN: 0195341201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows...
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Human Robots and Holy Mechanics: Reclaiming Our Souls in a Machine World

By: Kyle, David T.

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Swan Raven & Co: February 1993

Seller ID: 270746

ISBN: 0963231006

Condition: Used - Like New

Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

By: Harvey, Penelope

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Routledge: August 1996

Seller ID: 270731

ISBN: 041513045X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late 20th century.
Through analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in seville in 1992, the themes of cultur...
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In the Absence of the Sacred : The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations

By: JERRY MANDER

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Univ California State Pr at: September 1992

Seller ID: 226523

ISBN: 0871565099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process.
Now, with In the Absence of the Sacred, Mander goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole. In this provocative work, he challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world's loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world,...
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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

By: Drahos, Peter

Price: $17.98

Publisher: The New Press: May 2003

Seller ID: 270433

ISBN: 1565848047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In a few short years, the battle over intellectual property rights has emerged from obscurity to become front-page news. The continent-hopping, three-year court battle fought by activists to bring cheap versions of desperately needed AIDS drugs to South Africa is but one example of how this seemingly arcane area of international regulation has become a crucial battleground in the twenty-first century and is animating activists the world over.

This powerful book is the definitive history of how the new global intellectual property regime--the rulebook for the knowledge economy--came to...
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Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology

By: James R. Chiles

Price: $9.98

Publisher: HarperBusiness: August 2001

Seller ID: 240651

ISBN: 0066620813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

On July 25, 2000, a small piece of debris on the runway at a Paris airport caused a tire to blow out on an Air France Concorde during its take off. A heavy slab of rubber that spun off from a tire created a shock wave in a wing tank, which burst open and sent fuel streaming into an engine intake. As flames trailed two hundred feet behind, the aircraft rolled out of control. The crash killed all 109 people on board and 4 more on the ground.

The tragedy of that departing Concorde is just one of many such chain-reaction catastrophes that have occurred as the world has grown more techn...
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King Ludd

By: Sinclair, Andrew

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr: May 1993

Seller ID: 271230

ISBN: 0941423875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

By: Ellen Ullman

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Picador: August 2018

Seller ID: 268123

ISBN: 1250181690

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine

The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspectiv...
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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell Studies in Comparative History)

By: Adas, Michael

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: August 1990

Seller ID: 270759

ISBN: 0801497604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes European responses to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China, cultures that they judged to represent lower levels of material mastery and social organ...
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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on the Brain

By: Susan Greenfield

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Random House: January 2015

Seller ID: 204972

ISBN: 0812993829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price?

Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield--known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views--brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of "the global now." Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explo...
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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on the Brain

By: Susan Greenfield

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: January 2015

Seller ID: 263240

ISBN: 0812993829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters

By: William M. Evan, Mark Manion

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR: April 2002

Seller ID: 70241

ISBN: 0130656461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Evan (sociology and management, U. of Pennsylvania) and Manion (philosophy and engineering, Drexel U., Philadelphia) present case studies of technological disasters from around the world in order to develop an array of professional, organizational, legal, and political strategies to help prevent the
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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

By: Edward Tenner

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage: June 2004

Seller ID: 228351

ISBN: 0375707077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner "the philosopher of everyday technology." Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce back and change us.

The reclining chair, originally designed for brief, healthful relaxation, has become the very symbol of obesity. The helmet, invented for military purposes, has made possible new sports like mountain biking and rollerblading. The typewriter, created to make business run more smoot...
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Population, Technology, and Lifestyle: The Transition To Sustainability

By: N/A

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Island Press: August 1992

Seller ID: 70703

ISBN: 1559631996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Population, Technology, and Lifestyle brings together leading experts to suggest specific actions that governments and individuals can take to lead the way to a sustainable society.
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

By: Greenfield, Adam

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Verso: May 2018

Seller ID: 278861

ISBN: 1784780456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.

We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect of our existence. We're told that innovations--from augmented-realit...
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Rebels Against the Future : The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution : Lessons for the Computer Age

By: KIRKPATRICK SALE

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Perseus Books Group: May 1996

Seller ID: 233682

ISBN: 0201407183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new...
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Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change

By: Rosalind Williams

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: August 2002

Seller ID: 228346

ISBN: 0262232235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.

When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to mak...
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Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance

By: Klaus Benesch

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 2002

Seller ID: 262930

ISBN: 1558493239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Literary critics have long regarded the rejection of technology as a distinguishing feature of American Romanticism. Yet as Klaus Benesch shows in this insightful study, the attitude of antebellum writers toward the advent of the machine age was far more complicated than often supposed. Although fraught with tension, the relationship between professional authorship and evolving technology reflected a pattern of adjustment rather than opposition, as writers sought to redefine their place within a culture that increasingly valued the engineer and the scientist.
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Science, Technology, and Policy Decisions

By: Anne Hiskes, Richard Hiskes

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc): September 1986

Seller ID: 69896

ISBN: 0865316325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Social Issues in Technology: A Format for Investigation

By: Paul A. Alcorn

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div: June 1996

Seller ID: 69912

ISBN: 0134598768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Presenting the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our lives past, present, and future, this work is designed as a primer to give investigators and students the necessary intellectual tools to begin their own research into the field. Providing a clear presentation of the underlying theories, it reduces the issues to their primary nature, helping to simplify a complex subject and support creative thought processes. It also covers chaos theory and introduces the concepts of the subject and how they apply to the subject matter of the book.
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Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality

By: Victor C. Ferkiss

Price: $4.98

Publisher: George Braziller: June 1969

Seller ID: 69890

ISBN: 0807604895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Technoscience and Cyberculture

By: S. Aronowitz

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Routledge: November 1995

Seller ID: 69917

ISBN: 0415911761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems addressed in Technoscience and Cyberculture concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

By: Kurzweil, Ray

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Viking Adult: January 1999

Seller ID: 270407

ISBN: 0670882178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a framework for envisioning the 21st century in which one advance or invention leads inexorably to another. After establishing that technology is growing exponentially, Kurzweil forecasts that computers will exceed the memory capacity and computing speed of the human brain by 2020, with the other attributes of human intelligence not far behind. By that time paraplegics will be able to walk by using a combination of nerve stimulation and robotic devices.
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