[extropy-chat] PR: Lanier trashing >Hism again...

[nvitamore at austin.rr.com]

Jaron is showing systems of behavior of someone who had once been
recognized as an original thinkers and who got stuck in his own genre.  

Some futurist thinkers advance at one point in their lives and then get
rigid and become irrationally prejudiced about others whose ideas branch
out further than their own.

I remember this with FM-2030.  He is an outstanding visionary who could not
escape his own resistance to change when he refused to use email and
advance beyond being a 20th century bachelor.  Ray Kurzweil's lack of
appreciation about transhumanism is another example of not accepting a
cultural movement that can advance beyond his own ideas.  Betty Freidan
could not escape her own emotional shortsightedness.  John Naisbitt had
every option to get into superlongevity and transhumanism and, instead,
side-stepped it and reverted to a lack luster repetition of his former
works.

Natasha

Natasha Vita-More


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