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  Transhumanism : Transhumanist
Transhumanists generally support present-day technologies such as genetic engineering (including of humans), cryonics, and advanced uses of computers and communications; as well as future technologies such as space travel, cloning and uploading of human minds into computer simulations.
Rather than believing that immortality can be achieved after death, Transhumanists strive for immortality by not dying; through the development of radically advanced health technologies and anti-aging medical practices, Transhumanists hope to establish an open-ended lifespan, to make death a purely voluntary decision.
Transhumanists may characterize their opposition as Luddites, and point to such notorious examples as Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who was convicted of sending parcel bombs to prominent people in key technology industries, killing three people and severely wounding two others.
www.fastload.org /tr/Transhumanist.html   (1895 words)

  
  Transhumanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transhumanists generally support emerging technologies, including many that are controversial, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science; as well as hypothetical future technologies such as artificial intelligence, mind uploading and cryonics.
As most transhumanists support non-technological changes to society, such as the spread of political liberty, and most critics of transhumanism support technological advances in areas such as communications and healthcare, the difference is often a matter of emphasis.
There are, however, a number of transhumanists that follow liberal forms of Eastern philosophical traditions, and a minority of transhumanists that have merged their beliefs with established religions (see Christian transhumanism).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transhumanism   (3082 words)

  
 transhumanism - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Transhumanists are only transhuman if they are actively seeking to become posthuman, which they claim is the next significant evolutionary step for the human species.
Transhumanists are also forming regional and global networks and communities to provide support and forums for discussion and working on collaborative projects.
Some transhumanists do advocate forms of liberal eugenics but many others distance themselves from this term to avoid being mistakenly associated with the pseudoscientific and dehumanizing views and practices of early-20th-century eugenics movements.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/transhumanism   (2038 words)

  
 Transhumanist socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transhumanist socialism is a particular type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world.
A transhumanist socialist believes that despite the risks that may be involved in these new technologies, such as even more potent weapons and means of totalitarian control, it is on balance worth developing transhuman technologies in the long term, because of their potential to transform society for the better.
The term "Transhumanist socialism" was coined by Robin Green on March 6, 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transhumanist_socialism   (200 words)

  
 Transhumanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Transhumanists generally support present-day technologies such as human genetic engineering, cryonics, and advanced uses of computers and communications; as well as future technologies such as space travel, cloning and uploading of human minds into computer simulations.
As transhumanists support non-technological improvements, such as the spread of political liberty, and most critics of transhumanism support technological advances in beneficial areas, such as communications and healthcare, the difference is sometimes a matter of emphasis.
Transhumanists may characterize some of their opposition as Luddites, and point to such notorious examples as Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who was convicted of sending parcel bombs to prominent people in key technology industries, killing three people and severely wounding two others.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/transhumanism.html   (3284 words)

  
 Learn more about Transhumanism in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Transhumanism is also concerned with investigation into the implications of social, technological and scientific means of overcoming physical human limitations, and is also a movement which argues the case for fundamentally altering the human condition through these means.
Transhumanists generally support present-day technologies such as genetic engineering (including of humans), cryonics, and advanced uses of computers and communications; as well as future technologies such as space travel, cloning and uploading of human minds into computer simulations.
Transhumanists may characterize their opposition as Luddites, and point to such notorious examples as Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who was convicted of sending parcel bombs to prominent people in key technology industries, killing three people and severely wounding two others.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/tr/transhumanism.html   (1949 words)

  
 Socialism information - Search.com
Libertarian socialism is any one of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the State.
Modern democratic socialism is a broad political movement that seeks to propagate the ideals of socialism within the context of a democratic system.
Socialism rejects the racist theories and totalitarianism of the Nazis, while Nazism rejected the policies of internationalism, egalitarianism, class struggle, and common ownership of the means of production pursued by many socialists.
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 The Politics of Transhumanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Transhumanists themselves hold a wide range of political opinions (there are liberals, social democrats, libertarians, green party members etc.), and some transhumanists have elected to remain apolitical.
For the transhumanists to emerge as a broad ideological movement, capable of inspiring activists and organizing a resistance to neo-Luddism, it must embrace the full range of liberal democratic and social democratic permutations.
If transhumanists are conscerned about the persecution of transhuman minorities, such as disabled cyborgs or transsexuals, they should embrace the liberal and social democracies in which these minorities have been accorded the most rights and respect.
www.changesurfer.com /Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm   (11056 words)

  
 Trexle - Theory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Autarchic Socialism - An analysis of socialism and communism which contrasts the failed experiments in the USSR and its satellites with true socialism.
Guild Socialism Reconsidered - An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era.
Transhumanist Socialism - A type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world.
www.trexle.com /Directory/Top/Society/Politics/Socialism/Theory   (1089 words)

  
 The Cost of Medical Socialism
Medical socialism is the situation in which public funds - taxed dollars, other government money - are used to pay medical costs.
It is the end state of increasing regulation, in which politicians - having generated regulatory laws over the years that, whatever the original intent, ensure poor service, high prices and misery - answer cries for change by greatly expanding government control over the provision of medical services.
The nationalized health services of Europe are a more obvious socialism than what is presently happening in the US, via encroachment of schemes like Medicare and what is misleadingly called "health insurance" (more accurately viewed as highly regulated, inefficient health plans).
www.fightaging.org /archives/000998.php   (1494 words)

  
 Transhumanism - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Many transhumanists are actively seeking to become transhuman or posthuman, which they claim is the next significant evolutionary step for the human species.
Another author who depicts a few different transhumanist themes is Alastair Reynolds, where the Conjoiners in Revelation Space are one example.
They are a collective of posthumans which experienced a quickening when they started to use nanotechnology to improve their bodies and brain capacities.
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 Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Theory
A type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world.
An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era.
An analysis of socialism and communism which contrasts the failed experiments in the USSR and its satellites with true socialism.
www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Theory   (744 words)

  
 Transhumanism - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Transhumanism describes an emergent school of speculative philosophy which is predicated on the idea that the human species does not represent the endpoint of evolution but rather the beginning of a new self-directed evolutionary era, sometimes referred to as the post-Darwinian era.
Critics of transhumanism state that it is typical of transhumanists that they define victory as inevitable, much as Marxists did.
This, according to the anti-futurist Max Dublin[?], seems to provide a certain fanaticism and nihilism useful in advancing such causes.
www.openproxy.ath.cx /tr/Transhumanism.html   (1861 words)

  
 Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Theory
A type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world.
An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era.
An analysis of socialism and communism which contrasts the failed experiments in the USSR and its satellites with true socialism.
www.microtution.org /politics/Socialism/Theory   (744 words)

  
 TRANSHUMANISM FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Today, the Extropy Institute, founded by Max_More in 1988, and the World_Transhumanist_Association, founded by David_Pearce and Nick_Bostrom in 1998, are among the largest transhumanist organizations.
For a list of prominent transhumanists, see list_of_transhumanists.
A notable critic of transhumanism is Bill_Joy, co-founder of Sun_Microsystems, who argued in his essay Why the future doesn't need usthat human beings would likely guarantee their own extinction by transhumanist means.
www.bluestarbase.com /transhumanism   (2876 words)

  
 Read about Transhumanist socialism at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Transhumanist socialism and learn about ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Research Transhumanist socialism and learn about Transhumanist socialism here!
Transhumanist socialism is a particular type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as
A transhumanist socialist believes that despite the risks that may be involved in these new technologies, such as even more potent weapons and means of
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Transhumanist_socialism   (205 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVISM & NEO-CONFORMISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The fact that Socialism is a principle scorned at the moment does not lessen its future importance in what will inevitably be an increasingly over-populated and economically devastated world, raped of its natural resources and lacking all concepts of spiritual planning.
The true (spiritual) goal of socialism was never to "level" society down to a lowest common denominator—rather it was to LIFT SOCIETY UP to a higher level never before actualized on this planet—minus the contemporary gross materialistic corruption of humanity by State Capitalism and Totalitarian Communism.
Practically all of the social and political gains and benefits existing in the U.S. were fought for and hard won by a combative organized working class, and, to a lesser extent, by dedicated grass roots organizations.
www.gnostics.com /essay-icnc.html   (3105 words)

  
 Socialism - Monthly Review July-August 2005 Harry Magdoff and Fred Magdoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Although its politics was for the most part inspired by socialism, socialism was not its As for the conjunction between socialism and industrialization,
Socialism has essentially risen in the West, particularly in northern Europe.
Among the arguments against socialism is that it goes against human nature.
www.freenewsite.com /?q=socialism   (188 words)

  
 CybDem: Deliver us from Rael
However, Rael has two other and major influences that are awkward for transhumanists: the future studies of Hans Moravec, Eric Drexler, and Ray Kurweil.
When we read Rael’s rants about mind uploading, advanced nanotechnology, and, of course, the promise of immortality, it’s obvious that he synthesizes in a distorted fashion the visions of Moravec, Drexler and Kurzweil, with an intentionally religious rhetoric, which is not only used for tax purposes.
So it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that "Rael" and "raelian" are the two words that come up the most in the frequently asked questions for transhumanist activists, especially those located in Quebec, the current home of the Raelian movement...
cyborgdemocracy.net /2005/12/deliver-us-from-rael.html   (509 words)

  
 Pacific News Service > News > Are You An Extropian Transhumanist?
So much for the "end of ideology." Most of the old ideologies -- socialism, free-market liberalism -- are alive and kicking, and new ones keep popping up.
Its chief opponents are the various movements and groups who have taken the field against what they see as rampant and unregulated technological progress.
The word "extropy" was coined in the late 1980s by a pair of philosophy graduate students who wanted a word to serve as the opposite to the scientific term "entropy" -- which means a decline in a system's useful energy.
news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=816   (761 words)

  
 Omniseek: /Politics /Socialism /
The World Socialist Movement is different from other groups, they say, because it "promotes only socialism, and as an immediate goal".
Campaign for Labor Rights is a labor organization which specializes in the struggles of workers in sweatshops.
#Socialism is a non-sectarian channel dedicated to creating an open forum of discussion for socialists of all types, worldwide.
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 Transhumanist socialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Everybody must change as well, because true socialism isn't just a matter of who is "in charge", it is a mode of being of a whole society, on a world scale and including every person.)
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
And for the Propeller we may then circle the Earth in a day!'' during one revolution, supposing the air to be solid, is known as the.
www.termsdefined.net /tr/transhumanist-socialism.html   (227 words)

  
 CybDem: The Political Diversity of the World Transhumanist Association
I'll be releasing the report on the results of the second survey of the membership of the World Transhumanist Association, conducted in March, in a day or so.
But I'm sure the CybDemites will be curious about the results of the political self-identity question.
A collaborative blog for technoprogressives - democratic transhumanists, nanosocialists, revolutionary singularitarians, non-anthropocentric personhood theorists, radical futurists, leftist extropians, bioutopians and biopunks, socialist-feminist cyborgs, transgenders, body modifiers, basic income advocates, world federalists, agents of the Culture and the Cassini Division, Viridians and technoGaians - transmitting a sexy, high-tech vision of a radically democratic future
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 Need scholarly/comprehensive critique of socialism
I find myself in need of a good scholarly and comprehensive critique of contemporary socialism.
Amazingly, the most obvious Googlings are coming up dry ("why socialists are wrong" brings up zero entries, for example).
Not looking to start a thread on why socialism is stupid; I'm hoping for scholarly links (preferred) or books on the subject.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1365077/posts   (346 words)

  
 Society, Politics, Socialism, Theory
Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party.
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
The SWP leads the International Socialist tendency and is best known for publishing the newspaper Socialist Worker..
www.klevze.si /browse/Society/Politics/Socialism/Theory   (909 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Transhumanism Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
There are other emerging ideologies such as Christian transhumanism that identify with secular transhumanism in the ideals of mankind's capacity for dramatic self-improvement, but differ in their beliefs about the mechanism of that improvement.
The very concept of transhumanism brings to mind a sense of overcoming odds.
Many transhumanists are transhuman by virtue of seeking to become posthuman, which they claim is the next significant evolutionary step for the human species.
www.ipedia.com /transhumanism.html   (3271 words)

  
 LookUpDesign
Analyses the crisis of capitalism at the dawn of the new millinium, and the need for a socialist alternative.
Information on Cuban solidarity and socialism, people power and profiles on Che Guevara, Malcolm X, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.
A collection of articles, abstracts and e-mails on socialism.
www.lookupdesign.com /cat.cgi?cat=135004   (457 words)

  
 Society/Politics/Socialism/Theory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Political Philosophy [240]
A 1994 document from the shortlived ISG which was formed by individuals expelled from the (British) Socialist Workers Party.
Formal title is "the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International," written by Leon Trotsky this was the founding programme for the Fourth International and remains a guiding document for Trotskyists.
www.mywebdeals.com /dir/Society/Politics/Socialism/Theory   (930 words)

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