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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:06:09 -0800 (PST)
From: 2Arcturus <>
Subject: Cryonicist F.M. Esfandiary on the year 2010

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Much of what FM-2030 predicted has come true. 
   

  Humans explore the earth, seas, and skies with relative ease. Political 
  barriers to human movement have fallen along with the end of the Cold War, and
  continue to fall with the growth of multinational unions.
   

  The traditional family is continuing to crumble, with record numbers of 
  divorces and growing approval for arrangements other than traditional marriage
  (despite the massive counter-reaction of the ever-shrinking but shrill 
  religious conservatives)..
   
  For the first time in human history, the overweight outnumber the starving. 
   

  Nanomedicine may not be two years away, but its development is mainstream and 
  I would say definitely coming (see latest issue of Scientific American). 
  Regenerative medicine work, gene therapy work, and anti-aging work have also 
  gone mainstream, something that certainly couldn't have been said in 1981. 
   

  Life signs telemonitoring is now easily possible; the reason few are doing it 
  is because of general stupidity.
   

  It is obvious that telespheres - post-industrial intelligent computing/Web 
  interface moving toward Web 3.0 ubiquitous computing etc. - is already here. 
  And it is now a commonplace to observe that it has changed our world and 
  continues to change it.
   

  FM-2030, in my view, was a prophet of a new era. Like many prophets before 
  him, he was generally ignored by people who were too dense to understand how 
  the future could develop and improve. He especially encouraged people to be 
  OPTIMISTIC enough to keep trying and working hard to develop a better future, 
  something that many people have largely rejected in favor of PESSIMISM and 
  apathy. But the choice is still ours.
   
  Greg
  
 

       
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