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At 12:17 AM 4/9/2008, Fred wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 19:33
-0400, nvitamore@austin.rr.com wrote:<br>
> But like others who cut and<br>
> past information, Haava writes a quick flashback on the history
of<br>
> transhumanism with lots of mistakes.<br><br>
As I was reading that I was reminded that if you do not write your
own<br>
history then someone will do it. It might be a worthwhile project
to<br>
collect the various parts of early Extropian, transhumanist and
related<br>
history. </blockquote><br>
Much of this was compiled by ExI with the help of Mitch Porter. I
have an assistant researcher who has been scanning the environment for
current material. It is a big job to be sure. But the only
way that any of this can be meaningful is to have it in a number of
books, not just one. And since some academics favor an
aborted and bastardized version of history, it has to be presented in
that venue as well.<br><br>
It is all our responsibility. And it is our responsibility to
insist that organizations who put up FAQs and other material do not erase
ExI, Max More, and the rest of us in order to promote their own versions
of transhumanism. 1000 flowers blooming is lovely indeed, but they
did come from a seed which was intentionally planted.<br><br>
Natasha<br><br><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>, BFA, MS, MPhil</font>
<dd>University Lecturer
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - University of Plymouth - Faculty
of Technology
<dd><font size=2>School of Computing, Communications and
Electronics</font>
<dd><i>Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts</i> <br><br>
<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</font>
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