Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

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

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adventurous hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

Very well written and reflective, highlights the absurdity of the desire to live forever, but also how human that desire is
Also this really just screams trauma response but ok i guess focus ur life around trying to live forever cause you had a traumatic near death experience

‘If a cyborg is a human body augmented and extended by technology, is this not what we basically are anyway?’

‘a young man who had largely withdrawn from the world so that he might never have to leave it.’

‘Was dying of old age not, in this sense, the ultimate First World Problem?’

‘out of one nowhere into some other.’

‘the present is strange enough to be getting along with’

‘The unknowable vastness of the human world.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, and Terminal illness