From: John Grigg (starman2100@lycos.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 21:01:08 MDT
Colin Hales wrote:
I have quite often sat, doing the mall cafe thing, looking at the .... I
think someone in the list recently called them 'strolling contented proles'
or some such (I note in passing that proles used to be without hap- their
lot seems to have improved somewhat :) )............. and wondered if any of
them had the slightest notion of what is soon to happen and, in being an
active contributor to such change, what I would think of me after the event.
(end)
Should any extropians be judging these people to be proles? And how are you or other extropes really more "evolved?" Finally, how are you personally an active contributor to the change you see blindsiding them?
At least I'm happy to hear proles today have at least some good fortune compared to the hapless proles of yesteryear! They really had it hard being the unlucky folks they were!
As for your comment "soon to happen", I can only say these changes will take at least another decade or two to see fruition. That is not so soon in my mind.
As the years go by the mass media will continue to produce plenty of material covering nanotech, biotech, computing, and even in time, the oncoming Singularity. I don't see the public being "utterly taken unawares" by what obsesses and enthralls transhumanists! So I do think they have a "notion" of what is coming down the road. This awareness will increase as time goes by. I mainly see people in the third world being surprised by future events.
The big concern among extropians should be the attitudes the public will be developing in response to these technologies, which will in time transform humanity.
That is the matter to ponder.
best wishes,
John
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