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
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
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
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
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
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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
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