Re: Spreading Transhumanism

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
31 Aug 1999 18:18:57 +0200

naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:

> Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> > Just to satisfy my curiosity are all of the transhumanist documents
> > in Sweeden in English?
>
> Take a look at <URL:http://www.aleph.se/>.

And http://www.aleph.se/Texter for some different short texts as well as two sub-websites on transhumanist philosophy and life extension. I'm currently updating the site, it will look much nicer once the new interface is up.

> Actually, Aleph have
> created a very nice transhumanist handbook, consisting partly of
> texts translated from English, partly of original work in Swedish.
> There has been some talk that De:Trans might do a German version,
> after Aleph publish their updated edition.

We have also discussed translating it into english. But first things first...

> I think I can state with a high degree of confidence that Aleph/STHF
> are the most advanced of the national transhumanist associations
> in Europe.

Thanks! Of course we have had it easy so far, no competition. But now with Transcedo, WTA and De:Trans, we better look out :-) I think there is great potential here for cross-fertilisation, translations and networking.


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