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

4.0

There were times when I wondered if this book were fiction. O’Connell investigates the transhumanist movement - the people who want to transcend the limitations of the body, or even conquer death. My ‘favourite’ was 2016 US Presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan campaigning in a 1978 bus modified to look like a giant coffin ‘to raise awareness about death’. Wikipedia says he plans to run again in 2020.