From: Amara Graps (agraps@amara.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 03:14:18 MDT
Anders Sandberg:
>I agree, there is something deeply extropian about the place. OK, I have
>just been there briefly a few times, but I liked what I saw both on the
>ground and from my plane window. The whole land is a beautiful artifact.
>I think the location is important too, you get influences from all
>directions (and occasionally invasions) and this promotes trade and
>tolerance. A bit like Venice, another place that seems to embody human
>aspiration and never giving up against the clay.
The Netherlands is interesting, however I think the
lack of sunshine and strong wind would get to me. If you have a
chance for a long visit, go to Leiden. It's my favorite- college
town, sound of seagulls, smell of marijuana (ok, joking, but that
was the first whiff I smelled when I exited the train station),
and oooodles and ooodles of bicycles/bicyclists.
The entreprenurial spirit of Venice still exists... I suppose you
could consider it transported to Maestre (the neighbor large business
city) or to the Veneto area (the most productive region in Europe)
Venetian Scales of Man
http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::aXs1P1wD-THEm-VS9F-Px4Z-U25kH3woa1xv
'Scaling Technology to Man' (a better title than what I used, I think)
http://www.transhumanism.com/articles_more.php?id=380_0_4_0_M
Amara
(Milton Keynes, England)
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Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italia
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