Re: UberMemes ( was:FYI:w00f: UFO hidi..)

From: Steve Edwards (SAlanEd@concentric.net)
Date: Sun Mar 30 1997 - 17:38:47 MST


Gregory Huston writes:

>Even the "trans" in transhuman, refering to transcendental, is teaming
>with contradicting religous and political connotations.

I think the "trans" refers to transition, as in "human in transition to
post-human status."
>
>On an aside, I thought of a derogatory term for perversions of extropian
>memes which do not clearly require dynamic optimism: extropiates. An
>example extropiate might be: "technology will make everything better",
>or "technology will improve existence". Unqualified memes like that can
>lead to passive waiting for technology to save us...

As in, technology is the extropiate of masses!"
>

Steve Edwards
 

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