Re: Early Extropian influences (Was Re: BASICS: Anarcho-capitalism)

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 16:12:48 -0400

Dan Hook wrote:
>
> > I would love to hear the history of how various people on the list came
> > to hold some of their extropic ideas.
>
> I stumbled across an Extropian website while looking for information on
> getting a clock to run from a potato (never did find it...). I was trying
> to at least develop some ideas on how a watch could be installed in
> someone's arm but a better idea for that has already been discussed on the
> list.

I've been a latent extropian for quite a while, and when I was searching
for some info on Rome one day on Alta Vista, one of the links it kicked
back was Romana Machado's home page, which led me here, and I couldn't
be happier....

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