From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 02:53:48 MST
|EvMick@aol.com wrote:
|>
|> I'm not really sure what Borganism is.
|
|Well, my problem as well. So I did some rush research:
|
|[1] BORGANISM: 1) An organization of formerly autonomous beings who
|have merged their individual wills to create one, collectively conscious
|being; 2) The social and political theory that advocates the creation of
|borganisms.
|
|[2] "Borganism arose on late 20th century Earth as a response to the
|widely-held perception that human individuality had become impractical
|and unnecessary. Advocates of borganism ("Borganists") initially came
|from the ranks of individual humans dissatisfied with their low-bandwidth
|connections to other humans. "
Humour.
You can find a more serious discussion in
<URL:http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/WeBorg.html>
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