From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 13:05:01 MST
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Max M wrote:
> I have recently started a danish transumanist website. For that purpose
> I daily read through all the sci-tech news I can find on the web.
Great! The beginning looks promising. You might want to find
collaborators to reduce your workload and enable the site to work when
you are busy.
BTW, this might be relevant:
http://www.weekendavisen.dk/kunst/artikel:aid=4757
An interview with a certain Swedish nutcase :-)
Another article that I found interesting:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/start.html?pg=9
> http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-120302A
>
> What are the things that can be done that cause prosperity? Prosperity
> depends on growth, so economists want to understand how to improve the
> performance of low-growth countries. However, our knowledge is
> frustratingly incomplete. Certainly, there is no simple, one-dimensional
> answer.
I found this refreshing - it admits that there is no patent medicine,
and that "fixing" something as complex as an economy or society is very
hard, without turning apathetic and saying we shouldn't try. The applet
was a nice touch, and is probably a powerful rhetorical trick.
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