From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 10:57:51 MDT
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> 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".
> The net might not be the cause of transhumanism, but it could be seen as a
crucial factor in the formation of transhumanism as it is today. Without it
the content of transhumanism would likely have been very different.
Strongly agree with Anders's statement. Reminds me of how much of an impact
another technological revolution - TELEVISION - had on the so-called Civil
Rights Era, as well as on America's disenchantment with the Vietnam
conflict. Before the early 1990s the extrapolation of the Web's/Internet's
power helped blow the tops off some formerly closed societies - and
continues to be a threat to those still closed.
(As an aside, I read somewhere not long ago that most people in the world
don't have a telephone and have never driven - or was it ridden in? - an
automobile.)
Olga
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