Book description
Rewind Your Biology and Live Like a 20-Year-Old! Edit Your
Genes to Live Disease-Free! Find a Parking Space with Your
Internet-Connected Brain!
Advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics will
make all this possible!
This is not science fiction. This is your future. Right now,
pioneering scientists and technologists are transforming what it
means to be human by overcoming biological limits that have existed
since our ancestors swung out of the trees…and into the
suburbs. With incredible inspiration and perseverance, these
visionaries are solving deep problems of human health and
longevity—and their progress is accelerating. Super
You takes you inside their labs, companies, and minds…to
show how you can reap the benefits of a stronger, longer,
better, life. You’ll learn how to start hacking your
life today, to become more super, every day. Discover
what’s possible when yesterday’s human limits are
gone!
Learn how evolution became obsolete—and why it’s time to start hacking yourself
Save your life with whirring “jet engine” hearts, printed organs, and other medical miracles
Rewire and turbo-boost your ape brain
Become a mega-mind by connecting your brain directly to the Internet to use Google’s synthetic neocortex
Become superhuman with cyborg technology
Design and mold your looks
Genetically engineer your baby to be a tennis star (and other true stories)
Prepare for the political and religious backlash against the future
Discover how scientists will make death obsolete by treating it like a curable disease—and how to live until they do
Table of contents
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction: The Confronting Nature of Becoming Super
- 1. The Emergence of (You) the Human Machine
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2. Baby Science: How to Conceive a Tennis Star and Other Procreative Miracles
- Baby Technologies
- Ultrasound Technology
- The Future of Ultrasound
- Birth Control Technologies
- The Future of Birth Control
- Curing Mr. Happy
- Baby-Making Technologies
- The Future of Reproduction Technology
- Baby-Saving Technologies
- Nanotechnology for Babies
- 3D Printing To Save Babies
- Designer Babies
- Gender Selection
- The Fertility Doctor, the Media, and the Vatican
- Genetically Engineered Babies
- Testing 1, 2, 3 ... Is Your Baby Genetically Healthy?
- Daddy, Mommy, and Your Extra Mommy
- Pregnant Men?
- From Birth to Forever
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3. Beauty Hacks: Becoming Barbie, a Lizard, or Whatever You Want to Be
- Cosmetic Surgery Trends in America
- Lizardman
- Extreme Cosmetic Hall of Fame
- Cosmetic Enhancements, Non-Weird Edition
- Electro Cosmetics
- Cosmetic Stickers
- Tattoos
- Hair
- Weight Loss
- The Future of Thin
- Cosmetic Surgery: A History
- Cosmetic Surgery Today
- Sex Reassignment
- Weird and Wonderful Cosmetic Surgery
- The Future of Beauty
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4. Lifesaving Hacks: Whirring Hearts, Printed Organs, and Miraculous Medicine
- A Brief History of Medicine
- There’s a Future in Plastics
- Taking a Peek Inside
- Have a Heart—Pacemakers, Transplants, and Artificial Hearts
- Who Needs a Pulse, Anyway?
- It’s Now, and It’s New: The Future Frontiers of Medicine
- I Sing the Body Electronic!
- Up Close and Personal with Your Genome
- DIY Body Parts
- Stop the Bleeding
- A Sensor of Wonder
- Hi, I’m Your Robot Doctor ... Wait! Come back!
- DIY Health
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5. The Human Computer: How to Rewire and Turbo-Boost Your Ape Brain
- A Brief Early History of the Brain
- Your Brain Is Plastic? What?
- Do it Yourself (DIY) Brain Technology
- Meditate on This
- Brain Fixers
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Brain Drugs
- Brain Enhancers
- Over-the-Counter Drugs to Improve Brain Plasticity
- This Is Your Brain on Video Games
- More Super Cool Brain Projects
- Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain
- Is that It?
- The Future
- Will the Machines Rise Up?
- Super Us? Here Come Virtual Helpers Armed with Strong AI
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6. Franken-You: A Better Life Through Cyborg Technology
- Are you a Cyborg? Or just Bionic?
- What the Heck Is Cybernetics?
- Let’s Start with Bionics
- I Technology
- I See U
- I Am the Very Model of a Modern Cybernetic Man
- Super Senses
- Super Strength
- Super Powers
- Super Body: Wearables for Amputees
- DIY Bio-Hacking
- The Grinder Movement: DIY Surgery
- The Future of Cyborg?
- 7. In Hacks We Trust? The Political and Religious Backlash Against the Future
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8. Hyper Longevity: How to Make Death Obsolete
- The History of Aging
- What We Know About Super Agers
- Longevity Research Is Still Young
- Lifestyle Secrets: Live Long and Prosper
- Centenarian Studies
- The Longevity Genes Project
- Strategies for a Longer Life
- Current Bodies of Research in Longevity
- Living Forever: The Research of Dr. Aubrey de Grey
- Cryonics: Freeze Me When I Die So I Can Live Forever
- Reports of Your Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
- Extendgame, Not the Endgame
- 9. Human 2.0: The Future Is You
- Index
Product information
- Title: Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780133790696
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