X-Message-Number: 29219
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:28:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Harold Lockworth <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #29209 - #29213

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From: EnTwa DuMeLa 

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How sad. Nobody takes Buckminster Fuller, Gerard K. O'Neill and other futuristic
visionaries active in the 1970's seriously these days, though a current crop of

people with similar agendas have recycled some of their ideas. We don't have 
that cybernated leisure society, radical life extension, space colonization, 
widespread psychedelic expansion of human consciousness and other dreams set in 
the early 21st Century that my teenaged reading in the 1970's led me to expect 
by now.
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I can validate mark's feelings. In many ways we have
lost ground here in America over the last 30 years. 

-He Who Greets With Fire

  A sweeping statement can catch your knickers on fire, and eventually you will 
  be crying out for help.  Let me toss you an O'Neill donut. 

  Ideas are continuously recycled.  This is the dance of society and history.  
  Fuller is efinitely not forgotten in the fields of design, architecture, and 
  social sciences.  It is repeatedly being referenced and the World Game is up 
  and running.  But what we have today is actually far more exciting and 
  visionary than the architectural/planetary conceptualizations of Fuller, the 
  space designs of O'Neill, and the general futuristic scenarios proposed by the
  known futurists of the 70s.  

  Today a leisure society is available to anyone who has the skills and know-how
  to develop such a lifestyle.  The issue for most people is not that they 
  future did not happen but that their psychology is stifled in the oppression 
  of not being focused enough to plan a lifestyle that is fluid and relaxed.  
  People fail each and every time they do not plan their lives carefully and 
  place more emphasis on health and learning than wasting time or filling up 
  time with too much "stuff." The business of people is at issue rather than a 
  deficit of futurism or that futurism has failed.  

  Further, human  consciousness  has more opportunity in the coming years to 
  expand far beyond an acid-trip's higher consciousness projection.  
  Nanomedicine could bring about a finer-tuned sensibility concerning our 
  environment and our ability to synthesize information through a advances 
  sensing augmentation.  Artificial general intelligence could bring about a 
  watershed of self-actualization and a major leap in intelligence.  

  The visionaries of the 70s may not be as promising as the visionaries of the 
  90s in reaching far into the future and actually working to bring to fruition 
  the potential of their dreams.
   
  HL

 
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