书名：To Be a Machine成为机器:机器人,乌托邦,黑客和未来主义者面对死亡作者：M. O'Connell 

出版社名称：Faber & Faber 

出版时间：2018 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781783781980 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装

页数：256（以实物为准）

“对硅谷技术乌托邦人追求逃避死亡率的这种奇闻趣事的探索，是一个充满彩色人物的轻松愉快。”-纽约时报书评（编者的选择）

超人类主义是推动我们身体极限的运动-我们的能力，智慧和生命力-希望通过技术，我们可以成为比自己更好的东西。它在硅谷的亿万富豪和一些全球zui大的企业中获得了支持。

在要在计算机记者马克奥康奈尔探讨了当你将自己的身体想象为一种设备时呈现的惊人的可能性和道德难题。他参观了世界上zui先进的人体冷冻设备，目睹一些人选择如何预防死亡。他发现了一个生物黑客的地下集体，将电子植入他们的皮肤下以增强他们的感官。他遇到了一个紧急研究如何保护人类免受人为超ji智力影响的科学家团队。

我们对科技领先地位的痴迷在哪里？人工智能的兴起不仅意味着我们的办公室和家庭，而且意味着我们的人性？我们创造的技术能否帮助我们zui终使我们受到伤害？解决这些问题，奥康奈尔提出了一个深刻的，挑衅的，经常发笑的大声搞笑看看一个有影响力的运动。在研究成为一台机器意味着什么时，他提供了一个令人惊讶的冥想，意味着成为人类的意义。

Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has found support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world’s biggest businesses.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence.

Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not just for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions, O'Connell presents a profound, provocative, often laugh-out-loud-funny look at an influential movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

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.