From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 01:29:49 MDT
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:23:19PM -0700, Loree Thomas wrote:
> On the evening news or in todays Seattle times (or
> both), there were stories about:
>
> Alcor (The news anchor said cryonics, not cryogenics!)
> Life extension using Caloric Restriction
> The Libertarian Convention
> The Segway HT
> High Lift Systems, A Seattle company which has just
> won a 575,000 grant from NASA to start on development
> of a "space elevator".
>
> Extropy is slowly going mainstream.
No, mostly extropian technology. It is one thing that people have heard
of nanotechnology and cryonics, another thing entirely that they accept
use of these technologies to change the human conditition. This
technology could be linked to nearly any ideology, even non- and
anti-extropian ones. Since people now get more of the tech stuff we
should concentrate on getting the human stuff out - the philosophy of
self-enhancement, that self-transformation and change is good, that
there is a grand future to be had.
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