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050 00 $aB821$b.O365 2016
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100 1 $aO'Connell, Mark,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 10 $aTo be a machine :$badventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death /$cMark O'Connell.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2017]
264 4 $c℗♭2017
300 $a241 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-241).
505 0 $aSystem crash -- An encounter -- A visitation -- Once out of nature -- A short note on the singularity -- Talkin' AI existential risk blues -- A short note on the first robots -- Mere machines -- Biology and its discontents -- Faith -- Please solve death -- The Wanderlodge of eternal life -- A short note on endings and beginnings.
520 $aOnce relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement. He travels to the laboratories, conferences, and basements of today's foremost transhumanists, where he's presented with the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries of new technologies like mind uploading, artificial superintelligence, cryonics, and device implants.
650 0 $aHumanism.
650 0 $aMedical technology$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aProsthesis$xSocial aspects.
650 1 $aProsthesis$xSocial aspects.
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