From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 06:43:17 MST
Don Klemencic wrote:
> H. G. Wells had to be at least a great proto-extropian. He didn't talk of
> personal immortality, but perhaps he lived at too early a time for that. But
> most of the other ideas are there. I wonder how many people he influenced?
> I'm not certain whether I saw his motion picture Things to Come (from his
> book, Shape of Things to Come) before or after reading Arthur C. Clarke's
> Profiles of the Future, but I think it was first.
I just read Charles Sheffield's novel _Tomorrow and Tomorrow_ this weekend. All about cryonics,
uploading, and Omega Point theory. Good book.
Mike Lorrey
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