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color=#0000ff size=2>A passage that looked like it was from Amara, but
sounded more like Natasha: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><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.<SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ed
Regis was at the first west coast nanocon in about 1990 I
think</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>it
was. The Mambo Chicken had just hit the presses. That one
was</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>kinda
fun, not terribly insightful. James Gleick tried a futurist
tone</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>with
Faster, another book that way missed the mark, which surprised
me,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>since
his other work was very good. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Methinks the best mainstream </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>press about
transhumanism is still </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
stellar work The Spike, by our </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>own Dr.
Broderick.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=495404704-28092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>spike</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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