The Body Builders
Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

One of the greatest things science can offer us is the ability to better ourselves: improve where possible, correct mistakes, fix what might be broken. That work is certainly going on right now and Adam Piore’s Body Builders presents itself as a look behind all the science that goes behind engineere......more

This book was amazing. From start to finish I was left spellbound by the possibilities of technology that, is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but a steadily growing reality. Stories about a blind woman "seeing" again to a man becoming a musical prodigy after suffering a severe concussion, an......more

This book did a great job of balancing a number of typically opposing forces—human narratives and hard science, hopes and fears for the future, excitement about technology improving us yet concerns about losing our humanity in the process. At its heart, it's a book about optimism and hopes for the f......more

Do you like your body? You’d better. That’s the only one you have. But if you think of it, it is full of imperfections. Many of us like watching superhero movies maybe because we fancy some incredible abilities our bodies can’t give us. In addition to being imperfect, our bodies age. We get sick. We......more

This book is hard going, not because the science is dense (it is for novices) but because there is so much over-reporting, sometimes within single sentences. Often the protagonist's narrative in each chapter is overlayed with the stories of other multiple characters involved in the scientific breakt......more