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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: To be a machine
    sub title: adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death
  name:
    name part: O'Connell, Mark
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 241 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Mark O'Connell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241).
  subject:
    topic: Humanism
  subject:
    topic: Medical technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Prosthesis
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Prosthesis
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction
  classification: B821 .O365 2016
  classification: 306.4/61
  classification: COM004000 SCI010000 COM079010
  identifier: 9780385540414 (hardback)
  identifier: 0385540418 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780385540421 (ebook)
  identifier: 2016021725
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161013
    record change date: 20170601104849.0
    record identifier: in00003810545
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng