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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are. It's a philosophy that, depending on how you look at it, can seem hopeful, or terrifying, or absurd. In To Be a Machine, Mark O'Connell presents us with the first full-length exploration of transhumanism.

In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the circumstances of his eventual arrest in the apartment of Ireland's Attorney General nearly brought down the government. The case remains one of the most shocking in Ireland's history. Mark O'Connell has long been haunted by the story of this brutal double murder. But in recent years this haunting has become mutual.

We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios. How do we live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? And what is anybody doing about it? Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present moment. With insight, humanity and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?

Dublino, 1982. C’è un bambino che fissa la finestra del palazzo davanti a quello dei suoi nonni: osserva un uomo che viene portato via in manette dalla Garda, senza dire nulla. Quell’uomo si chiama Malcolm Macarthur, un raffinato frequentatore della società intellettuale cittadina, amante dei papillon in seta, delle giacche in lino e delle buone letture. Macarthur è però soprattutto il responsabile di un duplice omicidio, la cui violenza e insensatezza hanno riempito le pagine dei giornali per mesi, trasformandolo nel ricercato più famoso d’Irlanda.

Este libro pinta un vívido retrato de un movimiento internacional impulsado por ideas y prácticas extrañas y frecuentemente inquietantes, pero cuya obsesión por trascender las limitaciones humanas puede verse como una especie de microcosmos cultural, una intensificación radical de nuestra fe más amplia en el poder de la tecnología como motor del progreso humano. Es un estudio de carácter de la excentricidad humana y una meditación sobre el deseo inmemorial de trascender los hechos básicos de nuestra existencia animal, un deseo tan primordial como las religiones más antiguas.

My career as a writer, from Star Trek: The Next Generation & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to UFOs, crop circles, Bigfoot and beyond. With celebrity appearances from Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Tony Randall, Ray Bradbury and more.

An audiobook for any couple of the same or opposite sex seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. This guide emboldens you to harness your individuality, to be creative, and to plan your wedding your way. Every fiancé and fiancée faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O'Connell, LCSW, reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives.

L'Apocalisse non è una fantasia distopica, non è una remota possibilità. L'Apocalisse è intorno a noi: è negli aggiornamenti quotidiani sulla pandemia, è nei video YouTube sullo scioglimento dei ghiacciai, è nelle conversazioni quotidiane sul futuro. È sui giornali, sul web e sui social. Ma cosa sta facendo, concretamente, l'umanità per evitare la fine? Mark O'Connell ha intrapreso un viaggio alla ricerca di risposte. Ha visitato i bunker di lusso costruiti in Sud Dakota.