[extropy-chat] Transhumanism and non-gender roles

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Harvey Newstrom <mail at HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote,
> > 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).
> 
> In 1985 I had networked Macintoshes which had a
> hypertext browser called
> "HyperCard", that allowed hypertext links to bring
> up cards from remote
> networked computers.  This predated Windows-95 by a
> decade.  This stuff
> isn't new and wasn't adopted quickly.  It just
> didn't gain popularity until
> much later.

Yeah, but that was just your content.  Seeing that
which thousands of other people build can be
qualitatively, not just quantitatively, different from
seeing that which just one or a few build.