[extropy-chat] Re: Encryption revolution

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail at HarveyNewstrom.com>
To: "'Dirk Bruere'" <dirk at neopax.com>; "'ExI chat list'"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Re: Encryption revolution


> Dirk Bruere wrote,
> > That may be the situation now, but it is going to change
> > rapidly, and soon. Transhumanism is about to enter the global
> > political arena in a big way, and it is politics that will
> > determine the course of events more than science.
>
> This is the claim of all our great endeavors.  They haven't done anything
> yet, but they are about to.  They have been "about to" for decades now.
No
> offense is intended, but I will believe it when I see it.  I doubt even a
> majority on this list expect the Consensus to become a big political
player
> anytime soon.


I'm not talking about the Consensus, but about almost every maturing
technology from nuclear power to transplants.
The technology becomes polititics, and the limits and applications become
purely political issues.
Transhumanism is entering that stage.

Dirk

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