Michael Chorost’s Followers (12)

Add New
Videos

Add a comment

Michael Chorost

edit data

Michael Chorost (pronounced like chorus with a T at the end) is a technology theorist with an unusual perspective: his body is the future. In 2001 he went completely deaf and had a computer implanted in his head to let him hear again. This transformative experience inspired his first book, "Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human." He wrote about how mastering his new ear, a cochlear implant, enabled him to enhance his creative potential as a human being. The critics agreed; in 2006 "Rebuilt" won the PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Shortly afterward it was reprinted in paperback under the new title "Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World."

Dr. Chorost earned his B.A. at Brown University and studied computer ...more

Combine Editions
Michael Chorost’s books

Average rating: 3.72 · 414 ratings · 57 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human 3.67 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet 3.80 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools by Chris DiGiano (editor), Shelley Goldman (Editor), Michael Chorost (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems published in a fifth season 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	サイボーグとして生きる 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebuilt. Come sono diventato un cyborg 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	livro world wide mind michael chorost 2011 Ed. 2011 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebuilt How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human by Michael Chorost, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools by Chris DiGiano (editor), Shelley Goldman (Editor), Michael Chorost (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Learning Technology Designers by Chris DiGiano (Editor), Shelley Goldman (Editor), Michael Chorost (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Michael Chorost…

Quotes by Michael Chorost (?)

“The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful.”
― Michael Chorost, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet

tags: capacious, fast, forgetful, humans, internet

1 likes

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Michael to Goodreads.

Michael Chorost’s Followers (12)

Add NewVideos

Michael Chorost

Combine EditionsMichael Chorost’s books

Add New
Videos

Combine Editions
Michael Chorost’s books