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SHANNON VYFF
The MAMi Magazine article
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2189? said
Futurist and award winning writer explores how today's science fiction
could be the future's reality.
Imagine a world where you can "speak" to your friends telepathically,
use
a machine to turn your ideas into reality and where you can even take
your mind out of your body and fly like a bird. Pretty amazing
stuff-sounds like you've stepped right into the middle of a science
fiction story. But what if these ideas that are considered far-fetched
right now, really could be part of humankind's future?
That's the idea behind a new children's book,
21st Century Kids by
Shannon Vyff. "In the early days of flight experimentation, most people
chalked up the idea of human flight as pure fiction," says Vyff. "They
couldn't believe humans would ever be able to fly, yet now we realize
the
Wright Brothers knew what they were talking about. I think the same can
apply to other areas of human exploration and science."
Vyff's own children played a big role in writing the book; they are the
inspiration for the main characters in the book, served as sounding
boards for the ideas and proofed the final version. They are also
featured along with Vyff in an upcoming Barbara Walter's Special, "How
To
Live To Be 150."
Shannon Vyff is the author of the transhumanist adventure
story
21st Century Kids
written to educate
children about futurist issues and their role in
building the future.
She started her career out of high
school as an award winning photographer and writer,
including the Madeleine L'Engle Young Writer's Award.
And continued her writing endeavors by contributing an
essay to the Imminst book
The Scientific Conquest of
Death. As a spokesperson for anti-aging research and
lifestyles, she has been interviewed by numerous
magazines and news organizations, including Barbara
Walters, 20/20 and the Marie Claire, and Oprah
magazines.
Shannon is an Alcor member, a Methuselah
Foundation supporter and Calorie Restriction
practitioner. In addition to donating to and
volunteering for several National and International
organizations, she volunteers for her local Unitarian
Universalist Church and La Leche League group. Hailing
from America's heartland in Wichita, Kansas, she has
also lived in Eugene, Oregon and Austin, Texas. She
still calls Austin home, where she lives with her
three children: Avianna, Avryn and Avalyse and husband
Michael.
Listen to her on
HealthRadio.
Read
The $4 Million Mom.
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