From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 22:18:29 MDT
At 02:01 PM 7/8/01 +1000, I sez:
>the woman journalist on this week's ep of AFTERSHOCK
>who told Emlyn and the other males that VR and uploading was the pitiful
[etc]
I was being lazy there. The feisty journalist in question was, according to
http://www.abc.net.au/aftershock/episode_10.htm:
Rosanne Bersten - Editor of E-Mag for
the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
She is the Founding Editor of internet.au
which is Australia's best selling monthly
print Internet magazine published by Next
Media. She also wrote Rosanne Bersten's
little net.guides. She was Assitant Editor at
Australian Macworld magazine before it
was incorporated into MacUser. She's into
Star Trek, X-files, cyberpunk, role-playing
(Warhammer Fantasy and Cyberpunk are
favourites, but Vampire and Werewolf are
OK), french postmodernist feminism,
poststructuralist politics (Deleuze,
Massumi), feminist and tranny
cyberphilosophy (Haraway, Stone), and
lots of queer politics.
Another guest was:
Emlyn O'Regan - an Extropian, which is
someone who believes in Transhumanist
philosophy. Transhumanists favour reason,
progress, and values cnetred on our well
being rather than on an external religious
authority. Transhumanists take humanism
further by challenging human limits by
means of science and technology
combined with critical and creative
thinking. They challenge the inevitability of
aging and death, and seek continuing
enhancements to intellectual, physical and
emotional abilities.
True enough, although the sight of Emlyn cnetring his fellow guests was
fearsome indeed.
Damien Broderick
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