{"id":72227,"date":"2017-08-28T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/im-excited-to-see-mark-oconnells-book-to-be-a-machine-about-transhumanism-get-shortlisted-for-the-royal-society-science-book-prize-one-the-biggest-scie"},"modified":"2017-08-28T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T01:43:15","slug":"im-excited-to-see-mark-oconnells-book-to-be-a-machine-about-transhumanism-get-shortlisted-for-the-royal-society-science-book-prize-one-the-biggest-scie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/im-excited-to-see-mark-oconnells-book-to-be-a-machine-about-transhumanism-get-shortlisted-for-the-royal-society-science-book-prize-one-the-biggest-scie","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m excited to see Mark O\u2019Connell\u2019s book \u201cTo Be a Machine\u201d (about #transhumanism) get shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, one the biggest science book prizes in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/im-excited-to-see-mark-oconnells-book-to-be-a-machine-about-transhumanism-get-shortlisted-for-the-royal-society-science-book-prize-one-the-biggest-scie2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to see Mark O\u2019Connell\u2019s book \u201cTo Be a Machine\u201d (about <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/transhumanism?source=feed_text&story_id=10155997776853455\" data-ft=\"{\u201ctn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d,\u201d type\u201d:104}\"> # transhumanism <\/a>) get shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, one the biggest science book prizes in the world. The final chapter of \u201cTo Be a Machine\u201d is about my Immortality Bus journey and presidential campaign (a version of that chapter appeared in The New York Times Magazine after Mark rode with me on the bus). The book also has a wikipedia page now. Winner to be announced on September 19. <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTo_Be_a_Machine&h=ATPlqW5ujUmu2Ewnj6coapvqagNsjNWbTZFNCBB-mN2Dpx-tL7fqwaAN66p4yxP95CEt3eUBckN88BnhDn3ZOIumvm0woUTXpBAGECMOAI4XXMOBErdmCLKdW-6H7FMQycIKTczG4aUOQWPc3FrwWhvAb9eIZRkxBXayyOkum44P41ALBHQvO-cFIW6AZ_5vnNLJB3A3NaQnLZX0Kh1Vw9IFpUEr5Dh1DOCDqHO5-eAm2IWujurYtNBoHue9OcG_6LXsxj-ZR1E9BArKJcqE3X_Zk5PFQifDqInDBhHvGoERSMidy2y854p7\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201ctn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_Be_a_Machine\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_Be_a_Machine<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=805522829621265&set=gm.10155997776853455&type=3&theater\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=805522829621265&set=...=3&theater<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m excited to see Mark O\u2019Connell\u2019s book \u201cTo Be a Machine\u201d (about # transhumanism ) get shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, one the biggest science book prizes in the world. The final chapter of \u201cTo Be a Machine\u201d is about my Immortality Bus journey and presidential campaign (a version of that chapter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,224,1501,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-science","category-transhumanism-2","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72227","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=72227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}