{"id":70180,"date":"2017-06-05T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=70180"},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:16:09","slug":"fm-2030-are-you-transhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/fm-2030-are-you-transhuman","title":{"rendered":"FM-2030: Are You Transhuman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FM-2030: Are You Transhuman?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaS9QBdVHMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This film was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM-2030 held at the University of California on February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his \u2018transhuman\u2019 philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the value of researching \u2018indefinite lifespan\u2019 technologies directly as opposed to (or in addition to) more traditional approaches, such as researching cures for specific diseases.<br \/> The excerpts in this archive file present a sort of thesis of FM 2030\u2019s transhuman ideas.<\/p>\n<p>About FM 2030: FM 2030 was at various points in his life, an Iranian Olympic basketball player, a diplomat, a university teacher, and a corporate consultant. He developed his views on transhumanism in the 1960s and evolved them over the next thirty-something years. He was placed in cryonic suspension July 8th, 2000. For more information about FM 2030, view the GPA Archive File: \u2018Introduction to FM 2030\u2032 or visit some of the following links:<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia:<br \/> en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FM-2030<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Ethics &amp; Emerging Technologies:<br \/> ieet.org\/index.php\/tpwiki\/Transhuman<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2000\/07\/11\/us\/futurist-known-as-fm-2030-is-dead-at-69.html\">nytimes.com\/2000\/07\/11\/us\/futurist-known-as-fm-2030-is-dead-at-69.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/galacticpa\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/GalacticPublicArchives\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/galacticpublicarchives\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM-2030 held at the University of California on February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his \u2018transhuman\u2019 philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the value [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,224,64,1501],"tags":[2743,2746,1485,2742,1735,2133,2745,1736,318,2153,2149,251,2744],"class_list":["post-70180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-science","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2","tag-2743","tag-cryogenic-preservation","tag-cryonics","tag-fm","tag-fm-2030","tag-futurism","tag-futurist","tag-galactic-public-archives","tag-life-extension-tag","tag-philosophy","tag-singularity","tag-transhumanism","tag-transhumanist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70186,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180\/revisions\/70186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}