<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I thought this essay was a good discussion/overview of transhumanism:<div><br></div><div><div><<a href="http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/11999">http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/11999</a>></div><div><br></div><div>ciao,</div><div><br></div><div>Joost.</div><div><br></div><div>On 8 Apr, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div>Who needs critics when the topic is effectively invisible? See my </div><div>friend Dr. (soon to be Dr. Dr.) Russell Blackford's recent blog post:</div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-am-not-one-of-australias-best-and.html">http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-am-not-one-of-australias-best-and.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div>He starts:</div><div><br></div><div>"It's gradually becoming known who did and who did not get an </div><div>invitation to the Australia 2020 seminar later this month, in which </div><div>Australia's 1000 supposedly best and brightest thinkers will spend a </div><div>weekend in Canberra solving the nation's problems and working out its </div><div>future trajectory.</div><div><br></div><div>"I can report that I didn't get an invitation, and I'm not going to </div><div>pretend I don't care.[...] (hey, guys, you now have a goddamn </div><div>Australian as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evolution and </div><div>Technology, the leading intellectual flagship of the transhumanist </div><div>movement; just thought I'd let you know)."</div><div><br></div><div>Damien Broderick </div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>extropy-chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">-------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div> Joost Rekveld</div><div>----------- <a href="http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld">http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>"A is better off if B is better off.” </div><div><br></div><div>(Heinz von Foerster) </div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------</div></span> </div><br></body></html>