[extropy-chat] transhumanism as slippery slope

[Lee Corbin]

Mark Steyn is the most articulate person I've ever heard.  I'll print
this article out right now and read it.  Thanks, Spike.

Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "spike" <spike66 at comcast.net>
To: "'Lee Corbin'" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>; "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: transhumanism as slippery slope


> Macleans reviews the book America Alone by Mark Steyn:
> 
> http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=20061023_134898_134898
> 
> The following comment caught my eye:
> 
> ...As the most advanced society with the most advanced demographic crisis,
> Japan seems likely to be the first jurisdiction to embrace robots and
> cloning and embark on the slippery slope to transhumanism...
> 
> spike