To Be a Machine

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作者: Mark O'Connell

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​ Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body—our senses, intelligence, and our lifespans
Once 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.
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​ To Be a Machine
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
System 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
Acknowledgments
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