A nice long feature on #transhumanism in The Irish Times, one of Ireland’s largest papers. It focuses on the book To Be A Machine: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanism-s-promise-of-eternal-life-1.3010223 Separately, The New York Times ran a rather somber view of a few transhumanism books, two of the books (The Body Builders & To Be a Machine) which I’m quoted in: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/books/review/gene-machine-bonnie-rochman.html?_r=0
Mark O’Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death.
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