[extropy-chat] Transhumanism and non-gender roles

[kevinfreels at hotmail.com]

It's interesting to note here how quickly new innovations make their way
into mainstream society and become the norm. A Cell phone that takes
pictures and sends them to someone else without wires and all fits in the
palm of your hand, $100. A PC that fits in your pocket, $500. Doing all my
Christmas shopping without ever having to leave my home? Priceless.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net>
To: "Dirk Bruere" <dirk at neopax.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Transhumanism and non-gender roles


> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> > And there's one other factor - one that I'm
> > beginning to experience.
> > It is the 'seen it all' syndrome where fewer and
> > fewer things hold any
> > novelty.
>
> Would not a good cure for that be to make or seek out
> new things?  An elder of the 80s would surely have
> found some novelty in the World Wide Web during the
> 90s (assuming said elder was willing to be exposed to
> it).  Likewise, one who believes they have experienced
> everything could take a crack at designing, say, a
> nanotech assembler to leave a grand legacy.  (If one
> has experienced *everything*, this should be simple -
> but, of course, it won't be since there are ways of
> thinking and fields of knowledge one has not truly
> experienced.)
>
> There's always more to learn and do, although one
> might become tired of it and start justifying that
> everything out there is all the same.
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