What would it mean to become a machine? What would it mean to transcend our biological condition through a physical merger with technology? Transhumanists believe that the next stage of human evolution will involve freeing ourselves from the limitations of our flesh-and-blood human condition. In this blog Mark O'Connell, author of To Be a Machine (winner of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize), examines the startling implications of the transhumanist movement