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Can we use technology to cheat death?

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Transhumanists believe that we can and should use technology to enhance the human condition. They believe that we can eventually achieve immortality through merging with technology in the form of artificial superintelligence. The writer Mark O'Connell has explored the world of cyborgs, utopians and the futurists looking to live forever and talks to Tom Sutcliffe about what he has discovered. First broadcast on Start the Week, 3 April 2017.

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