But pain denies the human, eclipses it, obliterates it.
So far this spring we've seen three plays that, at some point, were off-Broadway make the move to Broadway: The Humans, Eclipsed, and Blackbird.
Metzger's career has been about alerting us to the risks in our deluded pursuit of technological progress, and of humans being eclipsed by their machine selves.
Transcendence suffers from terrible timing, arriving a few months after Spike Jonze charmed audiences with his semi-futuristic love story Her, which flipped a century's worth of technophobia on its back to view what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls "the singularity" – the point at which humans are eclipsed by their computer counterparts – as a version of romantic bliss.
While two years hardly awards the AI a degree in medicine, Watson does eclipse human professionals in one aspect: consuming data.
Porta's account thus has the marked and unorthodox tendency to eclipse human agency aside from the figure of the natural magus, who by dint of his natural talent, erudition, and wealth is in a position to manipulate and command the natural properties of many substances and objects.
Human activity ultimately eclipses nature.
Eclipsing human rights concerns, the US sees an interest in a strong Yemeni leader as a bulwark against al-Qaida's local affiliate, known as Aqap, which has attempted to plant bombs on US-bound aircraft.
Though Ms. Brassard uses electronic effects on her voice, the technology doesn't eclipse the human heartbeat.
For spouses, cuddling and affection featured as a basic human need and could eclipse sexuality in importance.
