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The Prometheus Project, Mankind's Search for Long-Range Goals
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January 16, 2023
Very obscure book that was written in the late 1960s.
What this book said is in the next few decades, humanity is going to create superhuman thinking machines, molecular nanotechnology and human immortality.
And then the challenge we will have is what to do with it - do we expand human consciousness in a positive direction, or do we use it just to further vapid consumer consumerism?
And what he proposed was that the UN should do a survey on this and the UN should send people out to every little village in remotest Africa and South America and explain to everyone what technology was going to bring in the next few decades and the choice that we have about how to use it and let everyone and the whole planet vote about whether we should develop -
super technology and immortality for expanded consciousness or for rampant consumerism.
And needless to say, that didn't quite happen, and I think this guy died soon later after writing the book, so we didn't even see his ideas start to become more mainstream.
What this book said is in the next few decades, humanity is going to create superhuman thinking machines, molecular nanotechnology and human immortality.
And then the challenge we will have is what to do with it - do we expand human consciousness in a positive direction, or do we use it just to further vapid consumer consumerism?
And what he proposed was that the UN should do a survey on this and the UN should send people out to every little village in remotest Africa and South America and explain to everyone what technology was going to bring in the next few decades and the choice that we have about how to use it and let everyone and the whole planet vote about whether we should develop -
super technology and immortality for expanded consciousness or for rampant consumerism.
And needless to say, that didn't quite happen, and I think this guy died soon later after writing the book, so we didn't even see his ideas start to become more mainstream.
October 9, 2023
Gerald Feinberg died in 1992, as an obituary from the NYT shows.
I believe I read this book in 1983 in Cologne Central Library. Today the book costs $ 132 Dollars on Amazon. To refresh my memory from a current reader: Does the book mention a simple method to increase the blood flow to the brains of human embryos, to boost their intelligence?
I believe I read this book in 1983 in Cologne Central Library. Today the book costs $ 132 Dollars on Amazon. To refresh my memory from a current reader: Does the book mention a simple method to increase the blood flow to the brains of human embryos, to boost their intelligence?
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