Re: The Politics of Transhumanism

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 10:04:18 MST


Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:

> As for my witchcraftish stuff, it is these days mostly linked to my
> roleplaying interests. Still something that tends to make people
> suspicious (with the exception of dotcom people here in Stockholm, many
> of which are quite familiar with roleplaying games - Jonas Birgerson,
> the posterboy for Swedish dotcom hysteria and dotcom death, was the
> chairman for the Swedish roleplaying gaming association)

Perhaps they'll be less suspicious once GPS-linked message store and
retrieval systems become commonplace. I can foresee RPG's taking place
in a virtual sphere overlayed on the real world. You might be tasked to
seek the Bridge of Death, which, in Virginia at least, might be the
Wilson bridge. Perhaps we'll get used to seeing robed mages doing
incantations all over the place.

        -Mike

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