Steven Poole

No end in sight

Advances in cryogenics make ‘transhumanism’ look increasingly feasible — but its advocates find humanity contemptible

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

    Mark O’Connell

    Granta, pp. 238

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