Re: Re-crafting the extropian image [Was: RE: Norman Spinrad on THE SPIKE]

From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 18:20:34 MDT


In a message dated 6/5/01 2:54:07 PM, sentience@pobox.com writes:

>My advice is not to try it. The present-day media is almost pure evil.
>Give it another five years and see if collaborative filtering can kill
>off the current crop of parasites.

I don't see how collaborative filtering will alter either the perception of
some that Extropianism is a cult, or the composition of the media. Such
ideas pass through channels not subject to novel forms of filtering
 (i.e. other than things like changing the channel or talking to somebody
else, which are already in wide use)



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