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title: "Kara Platoni: Hacking Human Evolution | East Bay Express"
url: "https://thecybersecurityplace.com/kara-platoni-hacking-human-evolution-east-bay-express/"
date: "2015-12-30T05:46:53+00:00"
section: "Industry Insights"
tags:
  - "Hacking"
source: "eastbayexpress.com"
source_url: "http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/kara-platoni-hacking-human-evolution/Content?oid=4625488"
---

# Kara Platoni: Hacking Human Evolution | East Bay Express

December 30, 2015 · Reported by eastbayexpress.com

> In her new book, We Have The Technology, the Oakland journalist investigates the wildest innovations of sensory science and challenges fundamental notions of human perception.
>
> There was a bloody body lying on a dusty road outside a small town in a desert in the Middle East. It was February 2014 and Kara Platoni, an Oakland-based journalist and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was inside a Humvee not far from the body, listening to American soldiers in the vehicle debate what to do. Suddenly, the man in the road lifted his head. “Damn, he’s alive,” said one of the soldiers in the convoy. They argued about whether they should help him — or whether he might be a trap armed with improvised explosives.

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