[extropy-chat] Re: [futuretag] Book: THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS IDEA

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

The title is great, and I hope the book will also be great. May I
recommend writing it for a wide audience: this should not be another
prayer book for the converted, but something that every person in the
street who never heard of transhumanism before can pick up at the
kiosk, read on the train and think why not, these are good ideas.
G.

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:45:57 -0600, Natasha Vita-More
<natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>  Friends, Futurists and Colleagues -
> 
>  The book, THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS IDEA is in the works!
> 
>  Bill Joy's Wired article in 2000 was a salvo that ricocheted around the
> world, causing fear and angst among people about the future of technology. 
> To add insult to injury, in 2004 Bill McKibben wrote Enough - Staying Human
> in an Engineered Age.  But when Francis Fukuyama made the resounding
> statement that "transhumanism" is "the world's most dangerous idea," it was
> the last straw.
> 
>  Since then, Dr. Max More and Natasha Vita-More have been in the process of
> writing THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS IDEA as a reply to the salvos of Joy,
> Fukuyama and McKibben.  
> 
>  Max More has written about the affects of technology on society, economics,
> politics and the environment, much of which is explicitly expressed in his
> declaration "Letter to Mother Nature."  Vita-More designed the
> quintessential future body, "Primo Posthuman," which applies the key
> technologies Joy, Fukuyama and McKibben fear.  
> 
>  Please contact us if you are interested in contributing to THE WORLD'S MOST
> DANGEROUS IDEA.
> 
>  Best wishes,
> 
>  Extropy Institute