From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 03:00:03 MST
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Among the latter, especially in the USA, there'd be a momentary guess at
> `Some nice people who want to bring us all to Jesus the Redeemer and make us
> better people in the eyes of our Lord God' but are then bitterly outraged to
> learn, on closer inspection, that this amelioration will be done by gene
> modification and computer chips in the brain.
>
> A football crowd of individuals enters a stadium to watch the game, shouting
> and jostling, and emerges in eerie lockstep, "improved" "better" humans...
I hadn't thought about this, but Damien is correct. "BetterHumans.Org"
could easily be seen as a variant of "PromiseKeepers.org". Not many
people are even remotely familiar with extropic/transhumanist concepts
(in contrast with millions familiar with Promise Keepers and similar
groups). Since most aren't going to take the time to educate themselves
in depth (hell, look at the size of the extropian reading list -- its
a college education) the first impressions have to be thought about carefully.
Robert
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