What happened to the Extropians, those space-bound, cryogenics-obsessed children of Ayn Rand and the WELL, after the WIRED Long Boom came crashing down? Well, they've swallowed their anti-statist convictions and mutated into Strangelovian neo-conservative think-tanks, which have the ear of the President and were behind things such as the aborted terrorism futures market. Or so Andrew "blogs are killing Google" Orlowski says anyway.

Posted by: mitch | http:// | Wed Aug 6 01:50:19 2003

Extropians begin to respond: http://www.lucifer.com/exi/extropians/0308/12522.html http://www.lucifer.com/exi/extropians/0308/12510.html

The funny thing is, I think that the things which Orlowski talks about - googlewashing, transhumanism in power - *are* going to happen. It's just that he distorts the facts to make it seem like the future is now. Maybe he should be writing science fiction, not journalism.

Want to say something? Do so here.

Note to spammers: This comment system applies the rel=nofollow attribute to the poster's URL and all links. Posting links to this page will not improve their search engine rankings.

Display name:
URL:(optional)
To prove that you are not a bot, please enter the text in the image on the right in the field below it.

Your Comment:

Remember my details.

Please keep comments on topic and to the point. Inappropriate comments may be deleted.

Note that markup is stripped from comments; URLs will be automatically converted into links.