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| | Sentient Developments: Re: Cyborgs in the City |
 | | As I said before, transhumanist optimism is tempered with technorealism, which is an attempt to expand the middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism by assessing all possible implications of new technologies so that people might all have more control over the shape of their future. |
 | | Although some transhumanists are "hardcore techno-utopians," NEXUS is only comprised of techno-realists who assess all possible implications of new technologies so that people might all have more control over the shape of their future. |
 | | Unlike most religious believers, however, transhumanists seek to make their dreams come true in this world, by relying not on supernatural powers or divine intervention but on rational thinking and empiricism, through continued scientific, technological, economic, and human development. |
| sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com /2004/07/re-cyborgs-in-city.html (890 words) |
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