{"id":104831,"date":"2020-04-06T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/notes-from-an-apocalypse"},"modified":"2020-04-06T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:02:48","slug":"notes-from-an-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/notes-from-an-apocalypse","title":{"rendered":"Notes from an Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/notes-from-an-apocalypse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connell\u2019s previous book, To Be a Machine, was an inspired journalistic exploration of \u201ctranshumanism\u201d, the subculture that wants to fast-forward to a technological future in which man becomes part-machine. This one is haunted by the idea that, unless we change our ways, or even if we change our ways, our species does not have much of a future at all. For O\u2019Connell, those fears had been sharpened by recent fatherhood.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A timely study of the world\u2019s growing sense of doom ranges from tourists in Chernobyl to Elon Musk\u2019s plan to colonise Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Connell\u2019s previous book, To Be a Machine, was an inspired journalistic exploration of \u201ctranshumanism\u201d, the subculture that wants to fast-forward to a technological future in which man becomes part-machine. This one is haunted by the idea that, unless we change our ways, or even if we change our ways, our species does not have much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,8,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}