To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death (Hardcover)

from aadyer

A brief guide following an excellent narrator through his interactions with near future up loaders, cyborgs, implant specialists, artificial intelligence and singularity proposers and observers. Near apocalyptic prophysisiing to musings on humanity itself coupled with laugh out loud humour make t...

from PDCRead

Nowadays technology is pervasive; you are rarely more than a few feet away from a smartphone or some sort of internet-enabled device. But there are some people out there who want to take it further, much, much further. Not only do they want to embrace technology, but quite a few of them want to a...

from dwhatson

Mark O'Connell provides the reader with a snapshot of some of the extensive technology and ideas that are part of the transhumanism movement. O'Connell interviews those who are determined to upload the human mind, others who explore the biological options for overcoming or stalling death, advocat...

from The_Hibernator

Summary: Believe it or not, transhumanism (the alteration of humans using technology in order to improve upon the human in some way), is becoming more and more mainstream. In this well-researched book, journalist Mark O'Connell records his journeys through transhumanism conferences, meetings with...

from mamzel

I['m glad this was a relatively short book because I found myself rereading sentences to try and really absorb their meaning rather than just skimming. O'Connell gives us an overview of the different means that may be possible soon, to prolong our life by different technological means. Transhuman...