[extropy-chat] Futures Past

[The Avantguardian]

--- Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:

> So I'll repeat my question again:  Are there any
> examples of 
> transhumanist claims or predictions that actually
> have come true?  
> There are dozens if not hundreds of examples of our
> claims that have 
> failed to come true.

Well for one thing, the human genome was mapped way
faster than any one, either transhumanists, pundits,
or even the scientists that were working on it
themselves thought possible. It was due to an
unforeseen but fortunate synergy of different
technologies, namely computers and molecular biology.
So in my book the human genome takes the prize for the
development that caught even the optimists by
surprise.
 

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Stuart LaForge
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope" - Robert G. Ingersoll


	
		
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