From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Nov 19 1999 - 08:38:15 MST
Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> >>> Maybe there should be various factions (like the extropians)
> >>> under the transhumanist banner (maybe we need "social posthumans"
>
> I've just read, with an increasing smile on my face, *ThiGMOO,* by Eugene
> Byrne (London: Earthlight, 1999).
>
> A global `Marxist extropian' revolution is fomented by several hundred
> `erams' - `Electronic Replication of a Mind-set', also Latin for `I was'.
> Built in a British university Museum of Mind, but evicted from there, the
> sims take over a secret corporate mega-computer in Islamic revolutionary
> desert nation Dilmun, renaming their nano-AI LENIN (Limitless Engine of
> Nanotechnological INtelligence'.
Sounds a bit like Ken Macleod's _The Star Fraction_, which I recently
read together with the sequel _The Stone Canal_ (now trying to borrow
the final novel from a friend). It is in many ways the novel to read
together with Virginia Postrel's _The Future and its Enemies_; the
good guys are the dynamist libertarian/trotskyist/space movement,
fighting against the conservative green/luddite/religious "barb" and
the technocratic stasists of the US/UN.
Free market communism? Why not? :-)
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