'They want to be literally machines' : Writer Mark O'Connell on the rise of transhumanists

The strangest place writer Mark O'Connell has ever been to is the Alcor Life Extension Foundation -- where dead bodies are preserved in tanks filled with nitrogen, in case they can be revived with future technology. "There was a floor with the stainless steel cylinders and all these bodies contained within them and corpses and severed heads," he tells The Verge. "That imagery is something that I will take with me to a grave, whether that's a refrigerated cylinder or an actual grave." O'Connell, ...