# Mark O'Connell **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** writer and journalist ## Definition **Mark O'Connell** is a writer and journalist. At ICE, joined Ed Boyden and Marcelo Gleiser for Cyborgs, Futurists & Transhumanism and later joined Rescuing Human Civilization. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments author of To Be a Machine and Notes from an Apocalypse; his reporting examines transhumanism, life extension, cyborg projects, Silicon Valley futurism, mortality, collapse, and survivalism. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** transhumanism, technological immortality, civilizational risk, and literary journalism. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://mark-oconnell.com/) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)