Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain

"Mike Jay explores the history of attempts to wire the human brain, tracing the stories of those who dared to imagine radical neurotechnologies. From the fictions of H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick to The Matrix, the C.I.A.'s Cold War experiments and Elon Musk's Neuralink, artists and scientists, quacks and renegades have chased the dream of neural enhancement and control. Encompassing covert military operations and psychedelic art, moral philosophy and cybernetic theory, Jay offers us a mindbending perspective on what it means to be human in a posthuman age"--