To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers

Description: WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? 'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time' Jeanette Winterson Prizes: Winner of Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2018 (UK). Author Biography: 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. A riveting, witty and provocative exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine