{"id":35434,"date":"2017-03-18T07:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanisms-promise-of-eternal-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:46","slug":"who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanisms-promise-of-eternal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanisms-promise-of-eternal-life","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to live forever? Transhumanism\u2019s promise of eternal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanisms-promise-of-eternal-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice long feature on #transhumanism in The Irish Times, one of Ireland\u2019s largest papers. It focuses on the book To Be A Machine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanism-s-promise-of-eternal-life-1.3010223\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/who-wants-to-live-fo\u2026-1.3010223<\/a> Separately, The New York Times ran a rather somber view of a few transhumanism books, two of the books (The Body Builders &amp; To Be a Machine) which I\u2019m quoted in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/16\/books\/review\/gene-machine-bonnie-rochman.html?_r=0\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/16\/books\/review\/gene-machine.\u2026html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mark O\u2019Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/who-wants-to-live-forever-transhumanism-s-promise-of-eternal-life-1.3010223\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/who-wants-to-live-fo...-1.3010223<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice long feature on #transhumanism in The Irish Times, one of Ireland\u2019s largest papers. It focuses on the book To Be A Machine: http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/who-wants-to-live-fo\u2026-1.3010223 Separately, The New York Times ran a rather somber view of a few transhumanism books, two of the books (The Body Builders &amp; To Be a Machine) which I\u2019m quoted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58374,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35434\/revisions\/58374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}