[extropy-chat] TechnologyReview joins anti-transhumanists

[Mike Lorrey]

Just sent in this letter to the editor of TR:
To the Editor,
Your homily, preaching against technological transcendance is a bit
flawed. You state, "When technology appropriates transcendance, it
becomes science fiction," yet a few paragraphs earlier you commented on
a real-world incident of people seeing DTP publishing of files to books
as "a transcendant experience". Are you saying that these real world
people and events are fictional simply because they came away from the
experience significantly changed?
I'm sorry, but you are inappropriately appropriating transcendance for
your own personal, narrow, political/religious agenda. Transcendance
happens where people find it, wherever they find significantly
different and/or self-altering meaning in life. Finding it in real
world technology seems far more non-fictional, rational, and real, than
in the way many people find it, in that anthology of historical fiction
known as.... The Bible.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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