From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 13:58:06 MDT
At 07:58 AM 7/9/03 +0200, you wrote:
Interesting Natasha, can you say something more of your media development
plan?
I'm not sure what you're referring to (maybe you are replying to someone
else and not me?), but I can't think of a better way to deal with the media
than what I have been doing for the past decade :-) But that is for my own
work and not related to ExI.
For ExI, I think the best plan is to provide reliable information and
networking to the world community of futurists and those who want to know
about the future. Also, producing material that helps people develop
skills for understanding the development and use of new technologies and
the social ramifications provides a service that is tangible.
Getting media attention is not difficult. What is difficult is having
enough substance that sticks.
Also, I am more of a grassroots person and think producing
transhumanist-friendly mainstream big media is done by many people, not one
person or one organization. Thus, networking futurist organizations is the
best development plan and working with cooperation, not competing for
center stage which happens all to often in our community. Center stage is
fun, but it's a lot more fun when you share it with people who share smart
sportspersonship.
In summary:
1. Form an alliances with other futurist directed that are not
necessarily transhumanist in scope;
2. Work directly with other organizations for a team-effort and one in
which each organization decides what their contribution will be to the goal
rather than duplicating the same thing (we see this with Foresight
Institute's gatherings which is pretty much the same as the ExI community;
and also with WTA's membership and goals which tends to be a duplication of
ExI. If Foresight focused on nanotechnology and encouraged its members to
be members of ExI, we would have more money and better advantage. Further,
if WTA had joined forces with ExI rather than try to compete, we would have
had a much larger community that would have been more diverse and copacetic
to transhumanist goals.
3. Send out press releases weekly on publicized issues.
Just some thoughts that I can think of off-hand. A more definitive
strategy that ExI is working on is not ready for our transparent society. :-)
Natasha
>
>###To this end, i already have some media interests that are reaching a
>fairly wide audience and have a multi-media network that is launching
>nationally within the next two months.
>
>All of these channels are based on building towards a transhuman friendly
>future. So, this list adn transhumanism in general has at least channel
>that is only 1 degree of separation from reaching a new, bigger and more
>"mainstream" audience.
>
>All that needs to happen in order to begin broadcasting transhuman ideas
>is for you to submit them. I can get them in print in a newspaper (soon to
>be newspapers) and online (soon to be in print) with a magazine.
>Additionally there will be other mediums available in the near future.###
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