From: Camp, Christopher (CCamp@omm.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 12:56:01 MST
There is a sense in which these super-viri and any medical, environmental or
other crisis are extropian. Crisis of this sort will require 2 key
components of successful extropian futures - international coordination and
advanced technological response. If SARS turns out to be a worldwide
epidemic it unlikely that most of the world will accept it as a message from
god for people to succumb to death. Instead people will ask for a cure and
as we well know a cure will likely come by way of new medical technologies.
If the cure makes use of new controversial approaches the result may well be
the mainstreaming and acceptance of the new techniques that Kass and others
decry. The international cooperation aspects also critical as we begin,
what may well be, a new era of global problems that need to be approached
from a global multilateral perspective.
Chris
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