Table of Contents

Introduction: Did Darwin dream of electric finches? Chapter 1: White Heat, White Light - forging eternal life Chapter 2: Deus ex machina - the machine supreme Chapter 3: Have spacesuit, will travel - colonizing new worlds Chapter 4: The soft machine - hello Dolly Chapter 5: The dawn of the cyborg age - hybrids for humans

About the Author

Marie O'Mahony is an independent consultant and was the curator of 'The Soft Machine - Design in the Cyborg Age', Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. She is co-author, with Sarah E. Braddock, of SportsTech and Techno Textiles, both published by Thames & Hudson.