Is technology re-engineering humanity?

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." This truism--by the media-scholar John Culkin about the work of Marshall McLuhan--is more potent than ever in the age of data and algorithms. The technology is having a profound effect on how people live and think. Some of those changes are documented in "Re-Engineering Humanity" by two technology thinkers from different academic backgrounds: Brett Frischmann is a law professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and Evan Selinger teaches philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.