To Be a Machine

Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-198-0 (ISBN)

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An exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine.

WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?

'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time'
Jeanette Winterson

Mark O'Connell is a journalist, essayist, and literary critic from Dublin. He is a books columnist for Slate, a staff writer at The Millions, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker's 'Page-Turner' blog and the Dublin Review; his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and the Observer.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	183 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-78378-198-X / 178378198X
ISBN-13	978-1-78378-198-0 / 9781783781980
Zustand	Neuware