Re: Spreading ideas

Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Wed, 27 May 1998 06:39:21 -0400 (EDT)


At 08:50 PM 5/25/98 -0400, Alex Future Bokov <alexboko@umich.edu> wrote:
> What a splendid idea! It's nice to see more and more people
>talking about _action_ in addition to abstraction.

Thanks!

> There's an article I scanned in from Analog a year or two ago
>called "A Call to Arms", and that person was also interested in doing
>outreach to high school and elementary school students. He had some
>interesting logistical and strategic ideas. He provided contact
>information if people were interested. If I can dig it up, I'll post it to
>the list along with a URL pointing to the text of his article (I'm
>assuming the folks at Analog can recognize an ally when they see one and
>wil not sic their lawyers at me).

It's your call. I would like to see how the Ayn Rand Institute and the
Institute for Humane Studies runs these contests so we don't have to
reinvent the wheel.

We will also need to raise money and decide on categories -- like
cryonics, space colonization, nanotechnology, the Singularity(ies),
uploading, &c.

Cheers!

Daniel Ust