From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 03:43:21 MST
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:46:01PM -0700, alexboko@umich.edu wrote:
> >
> > So, I ask the question I've been asking in one form or another
> on this forum
> > over and over for years, but never as concisely as now:
> >
> > What do we do?
>
[snip]
> On the really practical level, we have to find better ways of
> communicating. I think part of it is the professionalisation of
> transhumanism. Instead of having it as a hobby, we should make it our
> job. It is great earning money and influence from doing what you like.
> So the issue for each of us is how to either integrate transhumanism
> into current jobs, or how to create jobs for ourselves that promote
> transhumanism. It can range from being an academic over think tanks to
> physical training.
Yes, very good. My sense is that the one of the logical first steps is
professionalisation in transhumanist media: strides have been made there in
the last year, but I think that it's still in building the tools and growing
the reader base phases. We're way behind the web comic industry in technical
and social sophistication, for example.
RMS once said something to the extent of not worrying about the money; if
you're dead set, hard working and into what you really want to do, the money
will just happen in due course. (Someone else once told me that the time to
start a company/venture is when you can absolutely no longer refrain from
starting a company/venture).
But yes, professionalisation. Well said.
Reason
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