From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 01:03:23 MDT
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:31:46PM -0700, Max More wrote:
>
> The Internet and the Web have certainly been a *tremendous* boon to
> transhumanism, but it is quite false to claim that "without the Internet
> there would be no Transhumanism".
I wonder how much the network effect of having all the isolated
transhumanist groups and individuals becoming connected helped? Up until
~90 there were at best local groups and a slow interaction through books,
a few personal contacts, a few hub persons like FM2020 and so on. Through
the net the level of connection increased enormously, making the exchange
of ideas much faster and also linking in a lot of previously unconnected
people.
The net might not be the cause of transhumanism, but it could be seen as
a cruicial factor in the formation of transhumanism as it is today.
Without it the content of transhumanism would likely have been very
different.
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