Summary & Study Guide - The Body Builders

Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Technology, Robotics

• Author: Lee Tang
• ISBN: 9780995943186
• Publisher: LMT Press
• Publication: September 8, 2017
• Language: English

Science Fiction Becomes Reality

The must-read summary of “The Body Builder: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human” by Adam Piore.

This complete summary of Adam Piore’s book explores the science which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, augment, and enhance the human body and mind:

• The bionic man who builds bionic people
• The scientists who decode the genome and rewrite it
• People who have regrown parts of their fingers and legs
• A blind woman who can see with her ears
• Soldiers with spidey sense
• Doctors are trying to give mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically
• The race to create “Viagra for the brain”
• Neurosurgeons are trying to fix the circuits in your brain
• Scientists are trying to augment human brains with creativity

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Read this summary and you’ll have a lot of talk about many of the topics in this book.