From: John Grigg (starman2100@lycos.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 02:16:55 MDT
Anders wrote:
>...a few hub persons like FM2020 and so on
Anders, actually you mean FM 2030. FM believed that by the year 2030 death by aging and disease would be no more, and so he chose that year as a part of his name. The man is a hero of mine.
best wishes,
John
P.S. I had no idea you were jewish! lol!! : ) You do have plenty of chutzpah!
-- On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 09:03:23 Anders Sandberg wrote: >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. > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! >asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ >GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y > ___________________________________________________ Communicate with others using Lycos Mail for FREE! http://mail.lycos.com
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