X-Message-Number: 18992 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:03:59 -0700 From: Natasha Vita-More <> Subject: Re: Slipping singularity [Mark Plus] --=====================_1963028==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 09:00 AM 4/29/02 +0000, you wrote: >For example, talk of using biotech and Borg-like implants to create people >with "superhero" powers (apart from Rush Limbaugh) might not go over well as >public relations for Transhumanist ideas in the current cultural >environment, as for example in this article: What I find more damaging to the transhumanist culture is the negative and backhanded manner in which you seem to personally display. While it might be easy for you to hunt for examples to prove your point of view, you neglect to provide a fair minded survey of issues. For each article which is terribly slanted on the side of neo-Luddite review and Greepeace or Rifkinite madness toward biotechnology, there is another article positively supporting the scientific, technological and aesthetic advances taking place that clearly support the point of view of transhumanists who perceive the blending of human and smart machine as being a positive and very considerate and compassionate effort for humanity. Your axe to grind is getting weaker by each effort you make to dismiss and attack extropians and other transhumanist who ardently work toward sharing a vision with the world. Natasha Vita-More Natasha Vita-More Founder, Transhumanist Arts Art Director, Digital Design http://www.natasha.cc http://www.extropic-art.com http://www.transhuman.org "I'd rather be inebriated on a classic life than a 1996 classic Merlot." --=====================_1963028==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18992