From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 21:02:44 MST
John Grigg wrote:
> I would suggest doing the following twelve ideas as a group, and as individuals if we want to make this a better world.
Sorry, I'm to busy building the technologies on which our dreams for the
future depend, to spend that much time, effort, and money on debating
the dreams.
Who was it who first said, "The best way to envision the future is to
build it"?
This may be another angle of why transhumanism is seen as detached from
humanism and similar values held by much of humanity: because the latter
are pure thought, pure debate, pure compassion and emotions and hopes
and dreams...but transhumanism has an aspect, however small, that
actually shapes how the common man really lives (at least, to such a
radically large degree as to make mere humanism seem to have zero
effect). To think that a force other than your own has that much real
power scares people.
And, yes, I use the present tense deliberately. From this perspective,
the Internet is but an inkling of things to come. That came fast, on
the scale of human history, and we predict (with some evidence) the rest
to come even faster. Witness the entire concept of the Singularity, for
instance...and efforts to make the public more familiar with, and thus
less scared of, it.
Sorry. I like making threads come full circle like that. ^_^;
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