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Imogen Pierce
Imogen Pierce

Oct 14, 2021

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Will Billionaires Share Life-Extending Tech With the Rest of Us?

Why a book about cyborgs sparked an existential crisis

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I have just finished reading the book “To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death” by journalist Mark O’Connell. I started it on our honeymoon in Santorini where the cyborg-tech-bro narrative…

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