From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Mon Oct 19 1998 - 15:11:34 MDT
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> From: Robin Hanson <hanson@econ.berkeley.edu>
> Phil goetz writes:
> >> Transhumanism is the idea that new technologies are likely
> >> to change the world so much in the next century or two that
> >> our descendants will in many ways no longer be "human."
> >
> >The use of the word "descendants" is problematical.
>
> Why? Don't you think we will have descendants?
Hmm, weren't we supposed to become our own successors
like in "robots shall inherit the earth, and they shall be us"?
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