The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

By Adam Piore

Categories: Science & Math

The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human (2017) is a book by science journalist Adam Piore. Piore reports on researchers and technologies, from bionic limbs to brain interfaces and genetic tools, that push the limits of the human body and mind. He mixes lab visits with the stories of patients and inventors at the frontier of enhancement.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is something different, Adam Piore's "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human." This is a mind-blowing book about the human body. Adam Piore takes us inside the technological revolution that is fixing up broken limbs and, even more staggeringly, enhancing the power and strength of the human body through engineering, bio-engineering. He's pointing us to a future in which we will all have the ability to be superman or superwoman -- fascinating.”