Alive
Designing Radical Life
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Product details:
- Publisher Thames & Hudson
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9780500026861
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Language English
- Illustrations 425 colour illustrations 691
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Long description:
A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of what it means to be alive, speculating on what 'life' is, and how humankind will (or will not) fit into a new order of hybrid species: a sort of sci-fi guidebook to lab-built humans.
A silicone jellyfish with a rats heart, a drone that smells using the antenna of a moth, wearables made from cultured human skin, an AI-populated digital snack bar in the metaverse. These projects and many more offer a mind-bending, head-turning vision of the future that Madeline Schwartzmandemonstrates is just around the corner.
Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology and art, this broad-ranging survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it means to be alive has dramatically changed. Where do we draw the new lines? Are there any boundaries we should not cross? And what if ?
By examining these new beings, Alive maps out a vision of new partnerships, uncanny hybrids and collaborative intelligences, as sciencefiction rapidly becomes science fact.
