From: Sehkenenra (Sehkenenra@netzero.net)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 13:12:48 MDT
>> 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.
Yes Anders, but what better lure is there than technological candy?
Philosophies, ideologies... these aren't what (most) people care about- they
care about getting the goods.
-Nicq MacDonald
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