Reason magazine’s Ronald Bailey covered the latest Extropy Institute gathering, Extro-5, and relates some interesting comments from Max More:
The Saturday morning session opened with remarks by Extropy Institute head and philosopher Max More. “If you were in 1980 and had access to what’s in the news today, wouldn’t you think that you were reading a science fiction novel?” he asked. More pointed out that the Pope has just issued an authoritative statement on human cloning, women are having babies in their 50s and 60s, teenagers are living in a world where they are constantly connected wirelessly with their friends, quantum computing is being developed, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and people now run marathons using prosthetic limbs.
Not to mention monkeys that glow in the dark, mice that change color, and people kept alive by pig organs.