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I remember this article and it was really influential on me as a kid (rip wired btw). I ended up getting on a few extropian mailing lists and have had positive
by prepend 5y ago
I remember this article and it was really influential on me as a kid (rip wired btw). I ended up getting on a few extropian mailing lists and have had positive interactions over the years in multiple city.
Smart, fun group of people.
- jrochkind1 5y agoRIP Wired? I've got a near-complete collection of Mondo 2000!
- rsync 5y agoOMNI ftw.
- contingencies 5y agoI recall M2K as more art-mag/future-style than substance, whereas (earlier) Wired more fully explored ideas with feet on the ground. Those curious can see https://www.mondo2000.com/archive/ https://www.mondo2000.com/archive/ + https://archive.org/details/mondohistory https://archive.org/details/mondohistory
- jrochkind1 5y agoHuh, do you know anything about that "history project" on Internet Archive? I could scan all my old issues, but I imagine if they wanted that they'd already have them, they can't be that rare (and are of course still under copyright)...
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoI always thought it was the opposite. M2K had vision and some awareness of history and irony. (Albeit pickled by pharmaceuticals.) Wired was mostly just a hype factory, and often comedically lacking self-awareness.
- contingencies 5y agoIIRC ~Y2K+ Wired's content tanked hard.
- thom 5y agoYeah I remember being on various extropian mailing lists, and then SL4 which was a gateway into all the singularitarian people. Mind blowing stuff in my teens, although as it turns out it would have been better to just study more linear algebra and ignore what was for the most part a bunch of LARP.
- klyrs 5y agoHey, be nice. LARPing is a good passtime. Especially the kind with boffers!
- thom 5y agoSome of my favourite people are LARPers!
- pitspotter2 5y ago>bunch of LARP Having just watched an episode of Thunderbirds I'm the first to admire any bunch of people who want to change or change things for the better. However the sad truth is that, you're right, trying to make progress for progress' sake is little better than building a Star Trek set. Inspiration is vital but real progress comes a byproduct of understanding things better as they are now, and how they fit together now, I think.
- optimalsolver 5y agoYou can find an archive of all SL4 discussions here: http://sl4.org/archive/ http://sl4.org/archive/
- johnklos 5y agoThey're still around: https://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi https://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi
- nickbauman 5y agoWow, using the old Common Gateway Interface, no less!