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Thank you all for your responses online and off line. It touches me
deeply that so many of you care and repeated slam jobs on all the hard
work WE did in the 1990s and the enormous press WE received during these
years -- from the early 1990s (actually late 1980s) through today.
Each month, I do at least one magazine interview and at
documentary. I am continually answering questions for journalists
on one hand and students on the other.<br><br>
Certainly there was some bad press in the 1990s but it does not compare
to the positive press during that same time. We were covered in
magazines, newspapers and televised programs throughout the world.
I was thinking last night of articles on Max More and he was "the
man" - the mind, talent and looks that journalists love to
expose. I remember so many televised documentaries on the
future of humanity, science and technology that "we" were asked
to participate in and/or be interviewed for. And I remember FM-2030,
Christine Peterson, Amara Graps, Fiorella Terenzi, Tanya Jones, Regina
Pancake, and Linda Chamberlain, in the media and of course Eric
Drexler, Marvin Minsky, Hans Moravec, Tom Bell, -- so many of
"us" were regarded as icons by the media.<br><br>
Whether or some journalists used yellow-dog journalism to spice up their
articles was not so bad because we had so many positive articles in the
works. And at times some were referred to as kooky, to be sure, but
it is inconsequential compared to the great articles and strides we have
made and getting out name on the map.<br><br>
So, when someone(s) continues to make commentary such as:<br><br>
> "I was pretty happy with the tone of the piece, and I don't
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> think I or we were portrayed as subcultural nuts. That kind <br>
> of coverage is far more common now than the dismissive "laugh
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> at the Trekkies" coverage of the 1990s."<br><br>
I have no problem whatsoever to say I made mistakes in the press or
on TV. But I have never been a trekkie, I have never been called
nuts, nor has my husband. Since most of the media at that time
involved him or me, I take the above statement and the many ones similar
to it that has been uttered to mock as unhealthy at best.<br><br>
It puts out a sordid representation of a period in time that I personally
am proud to be a part of. Such commentary lacks quality of data
gathering. It is short-sighted and one-sided and done to promote
one position over another - one view over another - one group over
another. Such reeks of the type of behavior that is used to mock
and degrade people. Since we are part of this movement, it degrades
all of us.<br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
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At 07:43 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Anyone reading the WTA and posts
that continued slam jobs against early<br>
transhumanists (ie., extopians)? <br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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