To be a machine : adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death /
By: O'Connell, Mark
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Series: Wellcome Book Prize. Publisher: London : Granta books, 2017Description: 241 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 178378198X; 9781783781980:; 9781783781980.Subject(s): Human evolution -- Technological innovations | Artificial intelligence | Human-computer interaction | Human-machine systems | CyborgsDDC classification: 003.5 OCO Awards: Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2018.Summary: Mark O'Connell presents us with an exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the body to immortalists who believe in the possibility of 'solving' death; from computer programmers quietly re-designing the world to vast competitive robotics conventions. O'Connell paints a vivid portrait of an international movement driven by strange and frequently disturbing ideas and practices, but whose obsession with transcending human limitations can be seen as a kind of cultural microcosm, a radical intensification of our broader faith in the power of technology as an engine of human progress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-241).
Mark O'Connell presents us with an exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the body to immortalists who believe in the possibility of 'solving' death; from computer programmers quietly re-designing the world to vast competitive robotics conventions. O'Connell paints a vivid portrait of an international movement driven by strange and frequently disturbing ideas and practices, but whose obsession with transcending human limitations can be seen as a kind of cultural microcosm, a radical intensification of our broader faith in the power of technology as an engine of human progress.
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2018.