[ExI] The Manifesto of Italian Transhumanists

[Mirco Romanato]

Bryan Bishop ha scritto:
> On Friday 29 February 2008, Damien Broderick wrote:
>>> What power? Money? They certainly don't have supercomputers, they
>>> don't have massive research institutions, they don't have
>>> neurofarms, the only power they have is lots of listeners and a
>>> widely distributed mental program. What does this power have to do
>>> with transhumanism?
>> Uh oh. Have you never heard of Stalin's famous contemptuous taunt:
>> "How many divisions does the Pope have?"

> No, I hadn't, but what difference does it make how many the Pope has?

The answer is "He has none, but he can take ours." (the Poles, the 
Ukrainians....).

This is the same mistake the Muslims did in reaction at the Ratisbona 
speech and the "La Sapienza" protesters did to prevent him to speak.
Would they did nothing, the speech would be liquidated in two rows in 
the news (like many other speeches and meeting the Pope do).

He has no power apart the power others give him.
It is a political Aikido that the Catholic Church master.

Mirco
-- 
[Intangible capital is] the preponderant form of wealth.
When we look at the shares of intangible capital across income classes, 
you see it goes from about 60 percent in low-income countries to 80 
percent in high-income countries.
That accords very much with the notion that what really makes countries 
wealthy is not the bits and pieces, it's the brainpower, and the 
institutions that harness that brainpower.
It's the skills more than the rocks and minerals.
—Kirk Hamilton
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