Save the date: Michael Chorost to lecture at Duke March 14

HASTAC will host Michael Chorost, author of World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet, on March 14, 2011 from 12-1 pm at Duke University in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Room C105.  Lunch will be served at 11:30 and an ASL interpreter will be present.  

Michael Chorost made a splash with his award-winning dbut Rebuilt:
How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, a memoir of going deaf
and getting a cochlear implant. In World Wide Mind he ups the ante,
outlining how brain implants could read from and write to the
human brain to create sensory and emotional forms of communication.
Brand-new neural technologies like optogenetics have made this
conceptually feasible. They could lead to the emergence of a World
Wide Mind, a new form of intelligence composed of people and machines
working together. Sparkling, accessible, and dryly funny, this book
offers a provocative take on the future of the Internet and humanity.

Dr. Chorost is a science journalist living in Washington D.C. He was a
graduate student in Duke's English department between 1990 and 1994.