Explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. The text argues that in aspects of childhood from foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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