From: Lee March (cyberlee@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 04 1999 - 21:45:59 MDT
JAMES FEHLINGER wrote:
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> This suggests the inevitability of the appropriation of whatever
> terminology is used in Extropian discussions (particularly once
> it has become somewhat more widely-known and trendy, perhaps by
> having been mentioned in "Wired" magazine or discussed on ZDTV),
> by whatever passes for sci-fi in the minds of Hollywood movie
> and TV producers (which, at the moment, seems to cater strongly to
> UFO cultists, conspiracy theorists, and other paranoids).
> The term "matrix", used by William Gibson in _Neuromancer_ simply
> to refer to the "user interface" between a human and cyberspace,
> is similarly appropriated by the recent movie of the same title.
>
You think the concept and/or term sigularity was started by extropians?
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