From: James Ganong (JGanong@webtv.net)
Date: Mon Jun 21 1999 - 18:06:42 MDT
Hello.
Since I sparked this latest thread, let me clarify something; I was
asking for the personal experiences of individual list members & their
first brushes with extropian/transhumanist ideas, not trying to make a
list of what historical figures should be considered proto extropian. To
better reflect this intention, I've adopted a new subject line (see
above).
With respect to gender bias in the list of extropian meme-vectors, I
suspect that the primarily male list is accounted for by the fact that
the main exposure is via science fiction; until fairly recently, this
was almost exclusively a boys' club. If you were exposed to the meme 20
years, therefore, the vector was probably male.
New cases of exposure are much more likely to have female vectors; my
personal favorites:
Linda Nagata
Nancy Kress
In 10 years, were we to repeat this survey, I think these names (& other
females) would certainly appear as source of first exposure.
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