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Kim Solez, M.D. is one of the world's foremost kidney pathologists and medical Internet leaders. He has been at the University of Alberta since 1987, and is currently Professor and Director of Experimental Pathology as well as Director of NKF cyberNephrology, a joint venture of the National Kidney Foundation (U.S.) and the University of Alberta.
Having held leadership roles in medicine and technology for over 20 years and directed major music and arts events, Dr. Solez is convinced that very useful cross fertilization can come from mixing those disciplines. In particular, he feels that we can make medicine better, more human, and enjoyable to practice by injecting lessons from the humanities, art, and technology.
His forthcoming book Digitality is expected to hit the shelves in 2011. Digitality combines humorous autobiographical vignettes with techno-futuristic vision to anticipate what kinds of technology related experiences are yet to come as we and machines co-evolve.
As we plunge headlong into an increasingly intimate embrace with technology, and "merge" more and more with our electronic devices, understanding the relationship between ourselves and machines becomes more important. Can this ever closer association possibly be a good thing? Digitality represents a worldview in which this coming together of humans and machine will be a fun and surprising experience, replete with meaningful life experiences that we wouldn't have thought possible without technology. Digitality presents a future where technology augments our most human features and reveals surprising things about the human psyche.
Digitality is different from other technology books in that while the subject matter is quite metallic, the medium is very humanistic, as is the overall outlook. Dr. Kim Solez presents a worldview in which the artificial and real are not mutually exclusive, and explains how in some ways technology is actually making us more human. To date, no other popular books take quite as optimistic a position on the matters of human being - technology relations, or in as creative a way. The optimism in part stems from his interaction with his nine female muses, and they in turn contribute to his balanced view of what the future holds.
The Canadian iconic poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen called Kim Solez a "great master of the surreal" juxtaposing things others would never think of juxtaposing. Dr. Solez hopes that by putting things together in new ways, standing things side by side that the reader never thought of being together, he can stimulate people to think about the future and our increasing association with machines and devices in a new more positive way.
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