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Amara Graps wrote:<br><br>
I'm not a fan of Ed Regis, and I have been disturbed by his articles and
books. His book on transhumans was quite weak. It was a book
about cryonics and nanotechnology and culture, not transhumans, per
se. I wish he had not used the word "transhuman" so
loosely, in deference to FM-2030 who was teaching about transhumanity at
the time Ed wrote this book and who Ed didn't mention, but freely
borrowed the ideas.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hal Finney<br>
>The October issue of Wired magazine has a fascinating article
on<br>
>Eric Drexler, by Ed Regis, <br>
[...]<br>
>It is a sad article on the decline in the status of Drexler and his
ideas for<br>
>molecular manufacturing. <br>
[...]<br>
>Drexler's personal situation is described as quite shaky:<br><br>
> Drexler's rejection by the scientific and political
establishments<br>
> comes at a particularly bad moment. Last year, he
divorced Christine<br>
> Peterson, his wife of 21 years and president of his
nonprofit think<br>
> tank, the Foresight Institute.... Never a rich man,
Drexler is barely<br>
> solvent. He recently moved from his three-bedroom ranch
house in<br>
> Silicon Valley into a modest
apartment.</blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>>It's unfortunate that he is
dealing with personal <br><br>
This is old news. They split two years ago. Then and now, Eric<br>
(and Christine): on friendly terms and no crisis. And for many many<br>
months Eric has been seeing someone else. Hardly a
crisis.</blockquote><br>
Exactly, and it was amicable. <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>>and professional crises<br>
>at the same time, but keep in mind that it's common for divorced men
to<br>
>move into smaller apartments at first. <br><br>
and divorced women<br><br>
It is useful to point out that the Silicon Valley is one of the<br>
most expensive places in the world to live.<br><br>
>I am confident that a man with<br>
>Drexler's talents is not going to end up as a pauper, the way
Regis<br>
>seems to paint him.<br><br>
I haven't seen the article, but I'm sorry for people's
misunderstandings<br>
about Drexler. I think, though, that Eric will weather
it.</blockquote><br>
Yes, of course, but here again, another article that uses life's
incidents (which most everyone has experienced) and builds them to make a
story about Eric has some <i>Entertainment Tonight </i>interpretation of
the facts.<br><br>
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