Events
Harder, better, faster, stronger?
Event: Edinburgh International Book FestivalDate: 28 Aug 2010 19:00
Speaker(s):
- Iain M Banks
- Kevin Warwick
- Steve Yearley
- Justina Robson, Chair
Organised by: Toni Freitas, Events Manager, 0131.651.4736, Toni.Freitas@ed.ac.uk
Venue: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Highland Park Spiegeltent, Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh
In his guise as a science fiction writer, Iain M Banks has created a utopian interstellar civilisation known as the Culture. This imaginary community populated by ‘transhumans’ has real-life parallels in the work of Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University. The subject of Warwick’s research is his own body, and he has transformed himself into the world’s first Cyborg. In this event Warwick and Banks are joined by Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, to contemplate the future of human beings.
Further details: To book your tickets, go to the Book Festival website or call 0845.373.5888. Bookings open on 26 June.
back
