Quotes by Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

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The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of scie — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings than I would to the — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately called him. The first — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction. — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things. — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the millennia of our ascen — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmosphe — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
I recalled with some discomfort that the man driving the vehicle had invented the sport of volcano boarding, presumably — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobi — Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death