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To Be a Machine
- Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
- De: Mark O'Connell
- Narrado por: James Garnon
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent All-Encompassing Look at Futurists
- De aaron en 03-04-17
- To Be a Machine
- Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
- De: Mark O'Connell
- Narrado por: James Garnon
Fascinating horrifying and funny
Revisado: 04-17-18
O'Connell has written a wonderful book, well researched and thorough, encompassing all kinds of possible implications for our future. He is also delightfully witty and self aware. The narration is excellent, though occasionally veers unnecessarily into a slightly snide tone. He also reads all women's voices as if they were on the air headed side.
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General3 out of 5 stars 1
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book spoiled by narration
- De Maria en 02-09-18
Good book spoiled by narration
Revisado: 02-09-18
The book focuses on the individual experiences of Canadians, and does an excellent job of bringing the horrors of the war to life. It is a good companion piece to Adam Hochschild's book about Americans in the Spanish Civil War, Spain in our Hearts, which gives a bigger picture of the politics at play. I would recommend you READ this book, however, as the lack of proper preparation made by the narrator demonstrates laziness verging on arrogance. How else to explain the dreadful mispronunciation of people's names, places and even some less common English words? Spanish phonetic and stress rules are extremely easy to learn, so if a narrator has never heard of Zaragoza (really?!), it is not hard to get the reading right anyway. I can't imagine a Canadian narrator would not have known how to pronounce Regina Saskatchewan, Passchendaele, or Norman Bethune (Bay-toona?!). These are not obscure. I kept having to look on a map of Spain to guess the towns being referred to. It was extremely unpleasant and actually offensive listening to this mangling.
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