I was thinking of fellow members of the geeksquad; we think of travelling to
Mars (or dissassembling it for spares), and forget that other people spend
the same time thinking about getting a Suburban.
I like what you did with the Primo 3M+. I guess I'm wondering how large the
trend will be toward body mods, when an external body (thought about like a
car) might be easier, possible sooner, and more suited to many peoples'
paradigms; especially when people are getting "back to nature" (I think that
might mean eating each other, but I suspect that's not the common
interpretation).
Personally, I don't really care about the body mods in the near future. As
long as I can keep ticking along, decrepitude and all, I'm happy enough. I'm
brute-force time travelling into the future.
Emlyn
(I'm still Davros)
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From: <natashavita@earthlink.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:59 AM
Subject: Re: TV: Documentary Science of Beauty
Emlyn O'Regan wrote on
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:03:09 +1000
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>I'm convinced that "telepresence robots" will be a future move.
One path is as a natural evolution of the car. People love their
cars, but they don't necessarily like being in them. Much better
if you could stay at home, and drive your car from the safety
of your loungeroom over your web tv (maybe the next version of
the playstation will support this).<
Yes, I agree with you that telepresence is one future direction,
and one will continue to evolve. I appreciated your emphasis
on the automobile as an extension of the human body, but I don't
understand why you would think that this concept is foreign to
anyone, especially me. My entire concept for Primo 3M+ is based
on the future body as a vehicle. The blueprint stats compare
this future body to the current body in a layout design which
is a spin on a car ad.
Natasha
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