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s u p e r l o n g e v i t y
progress
action
coalition
a u g m e n t a t i o n
p r o – a c t
Imagine it is the year 2030 and we are looking back on our accomplishments of the past three decades. How should our time be best remembered? How about: Cancer reduced to a minor health problem that is easily curable; Billions of people enjoying lives enhanced by connection to a rich global cultural network; nanotechnology solving the environmental damage of past centuries; Art forms barely imaginable today enriching the lives of a population made more creative through new technologies and new ideas; or, the dream of true artificial intelligence realized, adding a new richness to the human landscape never before known.
Each of the above "future headlines" is fun, but also raises issues implicating our basic values. The swift progress of technology and both the promise and peril it presents are serious concerns; the basic question of whether we will continue to progress or turn away in fear needs our earnest attention and ability to solve problems.
Progress Action Coalition serves as a conduit of information and exchange for those working to counter the many biases against advanced technologies that are growing in our culture and the policies of our governments. Recent years have revealed a growing feeling of fear around the world which is a source of danger to the very value of progress itself. Questions are raised about the development of life-transforming technologies and the spread of freedom, creativity and enterprise in our society, but too often now the only answers offered are based on a pessimistic rejection of progress. Progress Action Coalition is a resource to build networks among people who acknowledge the challenges before us, but who face those challenges with an optimistic commitment to improving the human condition.
If we take action now, we can have a major impact on how the world views efforts to prolong and improve life, advance the world's knowledge about positive technologies, improve the environment, promote space travel, and address fundamental issues in education, the environment and the quality of life for the vast majority of humanity that still lives in hunger, fear and ignorance. As Buckminster Fuller said, it is a matter of distribution not content. By distributing knowledge effectively, we can encourage others to ask the right questions and find reliable information about these and other issues.
Many of us have been discussing these concerns for years. Now we have an organization designed to work with you in taking action for progress. Now is the time to take a to stand to make sure the public gets all the facts, not just the ones that alarm them. Progress Action Coalition is an independent organization created to fill a need in our culture. Rather than stand by and listen to voices counseling fear and retreat dominate the public stage, we plan to push progress. Our web site was secured in April, awaiting its launch in time for the Extropy Institute's Extropy-5 Conference in June, where advocates for a positive future will gather. We hope you'll join us in our first endeavor, a moderated email forum for sharing information and resources among people knowledgeable about the technologies and trends that will effect our future and concerned that progress continue toward a brighter future.
We look forward to the years ahead and I invite you to join us to counter the many biases against advanced technologies.
Natasha Vita-More, Director Progress Action Coalition
(“Pro-Act”)
Identify the Opposition
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Turning Point Project
A non-profit organization formed in 1999 “to design and produce a series of educational advertisements concerning the major issues of the new millennium.”
Nearly 100 participating organization of the Turning Point Project favor alternatives to the recent practices and policies concerning genetic engineering, economic globalization, industrial agriculture, extinction crisis and megtechology.
Add Campaign
“Watch The New York Times or return to this site to see our next ads.
Approximately once each week a new ad will be released. Keep watching
because this series continues will into the year 2000.”
Techno-Utopianism“Now a terrifying new generation of technologies…”
“Descriptions of new technologies are invariably optimistic, even utopian. That’s because most technology news originates from corporations who profit from it.”
Promise from New Technologies Negative Possibilities Left Out
Automobile were introduced as clean, safe, fast.
“No mention of air pollution, noise, deaths on the highway, or oil wars.”
Pesticides were going to save crops. “No mention of poisoned food, land, water…”
Nuclear energy was promoted as safe. “No mention of radioactivity lasting 250,000 years.
Television was going to democratize information.
“No mention of mind-numbing … homogenized … culture.”
Antibiotics were going to stop diseases. “…also caused antibiotic resistance in bacteria …”
Internet was sold as boon for democracy. “But it’s also brought bankruptcy…”
Genetic engineering is supposed to feed the world.
“No mention of .. Heath risks from “frankenfoods…”
Who Plays God in the 21st Century?“…we approach the gravest moral, social and ecological crises in history.”
“Who appointed the biotech industry as Gods of the 21st Century? Doesn’t democracy function anymore?”
Some Issues Some Concerns
Breaking the species barrier: “Biotech companies are blithely removing components of human beings (and other creatures) and treating us all like auto parts at a swap meet.… They…are dazzled by dollars and fame.”
Patenting life forms: “Many cannot afford what corporations are asking, and more than one million of them recently held a mass protest about it. They called it ‘biopiracy.’… Will they produce perfect ‘designer human’ embryos creating trendy humans by the year 2050? … There’s no point in creating superior creatures if you can’t own them.”
Genetic Roulette: “They say its safe, but how could we know? .. Biotech creatures and microbes are unpredictable. They can reproduce, cross-pollinate, mute and migrate. They can jump across species using virus vectors.” “Aids probably resulted from a virus jumping from monkeys into humans.”
Brave New World: “Adlus Huxley predicted a society where human beings are genetically engineered for commercial and industrial purposes. They don’t protest because they are designed to ‘love their servitude.’ Has that already happened to us? Not yet!”
Threat of Global Monoculture: “Real farmers will become obsolete.”
Biotech suicide plants: If you believe the biotechnology industry is motivated to feed a hungry world, “consider the new “terminator” technology being developed…”
Ecological roulette: Monsanto is marketing the number one chemical herbicide in the world: Roundup. “… they are genetically engineering certain crops to resist Roundup.”
Hunger “Rather than destroying people’s abilities to feed themselves, we should be encouraging it.”
Biotechnology = HungerThe biotechnology industry promotes itself
as the solution to world hunger.
Some Issues Some Concerns
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International Center for Technology AssessmentEarth Island InstituteNature Institute/NetFutureSilicon Valley Toxics CoalitionThe Loka InstituteFoundation on Ethics and MeaningCouncil for Responsible GeneticsCenter for Commercial-Free Public EducationTikkun MagazineEdmonds InstituteNew York Open CenterCenter for Media and DemocracyCollective Heritage Institute/Bioneers ConferenceRainforest Action Network__________International Center for Technology AssessmentFood First/Institute for
Food and Development Policy Foundation on Economic TrendsCouncil for Responsible GeneticsHumane Society U.S.Sierra ClubInstitute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyCenter for Food SafetyEdmonds InstituteInternational Forum on GlobalizationInternational Forum on Food and AgricultureMothers and OthersFriends of the EarthCenter for Ethics and ToxicsMothers for Natural LawOrganic Consumers AssociationCampaign for Responsible Transplantation
Earth Island InstituteNative Forest Network ____________Greenepeace USAPesticide Action NetworkReligious Campaign for Forest ConservationResearch Foundation for Science, Technology and EcologyFood & WaterRural VermontIdaho Sporting CongressDavid Suzuki FoundationNative Forest Council
___________Alliance for Childhood, Association for Waldorf Schools of North America The Center for Commercial-Free EducationThe Loka InstituteTV Turnoff Network,Jacques Ellul SocietyComputer Professionals for Social ResponsibilityCenter for Plain Living
Some Supporters of the
Turning Point Project
_____________Whole Earth MagazinePlanet Drum FoundationYes! MagazineThe WorldThe Ecologist Magazine
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The Foundation for Economic Trends
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Organic Molecule: Photo taken in 1986 by European Space Agency’s Giotto probe close-up of ice ball found at the core of Halley’s Comet.
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What do you do for living?
Solar Eclipse with coronal ring phenomenon: March 7, 1970. Photo by Roger Ressmeyer, Miahuatlan, Mexico.
Error correction device.
Network of sonar sensors depict data through mass and map onto visual field.
Increased frequency range and parabolic hearingwith external wiring.
Biosensors externally running neuro fiber optics to stimulate atmospheric tensions.
Uses fat for energy.
Gender changeability
Environmentally friendly.
Polymer chemical sensorarrays emulate mammalianolfactory receptor neurons.
Prosthetic vehicle directed by sensorynano-scale mechanics.
Metabrain – Prosthetic AIlayer interwovenBy nanobots.
Active prosthetic neurons route data flow and connectivity.
Turbocharged reflex suspension.More flexible, reconfigures by networked AI.
20th Century Body Primo 3M+ Future BodyLimited life span AgelessInherited genes Replaceable genesWears out UpgradeableRandom mistakes Error correction deviceIntelligence capacity 100 trillion synapses Intelligence capacity 100 quadrillion synapsesSingle track circuits Multiple viewpoints running on parallelGender restricted Gender changeabilityProne to environmental damage Environmentally friendlyCorrosion by irritability, envy, depression Turbocharged optimismProne to fat conglomerates Uses fat for energyElimination messy and gaseous waste Recycles and purifies waste products
20th Century Body Primo 3M+ Future BodyLimited life span AgelessInherited genes Replaceable genesWears out UpgradeableRandom mistakes Error correction deviceIntelligence capacity 100 trillion synapses Intelligence capacity 100 quadrillion synapsesSingle track circuits Multiple viewpoints running on parallelGender restricted Gender changeabilityProne to environmental damage Environmentally friendlyCorrosion by irritability, envy, depression Turbocharged optimismProne to fat conglomerates Uses fat for energyElimination messy and gaseous waste Recycles and purifies waste products
Error correction device.
Network of sonar sensors depict data through mass and map onto visual field.
Increased frequency range and parabolic hearingwith external wiring.
Biosensors externally running neuro fiber optics to stimulate atmospheric tensions.
Uses fat for energy.
Gender changeability
Environmentally friendly.
Polymer chemical sensorarrays emulate mammalianolfactory receptor neurons.
Prosthetic vehicle directed by Sensory nano-scale mechanics.
Metabrain – Prosthetic AIlayer interwovenby nanobots.
Active prosthetic neurons route data flow and connectivity.
Turbocharged reflex suspension.More flexible, reconfigures by networked AI.
20th Century Body Primo 3M+ Future BodyLimited life span AgelessInherited genes Replaceable genesWears out UpgradeableRandom mistakes Error correction deviceIntelligence capacity 100 trillion synapses Intelligence capacity 100 quadrillion synapsesSingle track circuits Multiple viewpoints running on parallelGender restricted Gender changeabilityProne to environmental damage Environmentally friendlyCorrosion by irritability, envy, depression Turbocharged optimismProne to fat conglomerates Uses fat for energyElimination messy and gaseous waste Recycles and purifies waste products
Photo by R. Ressmeyer
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A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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Stewart Brand
A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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John Naisbitt
A Talent for Living20 World Class Thinkers Crack the Myths of Mortality
The race to the moon has been replaced with the genomics and proteonomics race.
We are cracking the memetic code that causes acceptance of limited lifespan.
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Other artistic, scientific,
technological and cultural thinkers.
The securities solution company known for preventing damage caused by self-replicating technologies came out with an IPO today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was revived from cryonic suspension today and is undergoing reentry procedures. His long-term partner, Maria Schriever, who has not been suspended but underwent age reversal therapy, recently returned from assignment on the L5 Colony: “He always said, ‘I’ll be back.’”
Ageism in Sports: Two long distance swimmers competing in this year’s triathlon were declared disqualified today. The disqualified swimmers are 96 and 98 years old and under the age requirements for for the race.
The collaboration of Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil received the Nobel Peace Prize for the successful mediation performed by their AI Arbitor, Solomon2, who simultaneously resolved the centuries-old conflicts between the Arabs and the Jews, the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Israelis and the PLO. The question remains, who should receive the prize: Minsky, Kurzweil or Solomon2? The Nobel Peace Prize Committee wants to hire Solomon2 to make the final decision, but Solomon2 recused itself, saying it’s far too personal a decision.
In related news: John Clark, tissue engineered athlete, will be performing in the Moon based Tae Kwon Do match.
BioTransport (BIOT) made a big splash on the stock market today bringing in the Bull with a bump up in its stock price. Once thought of as a high-risk stock, along the lines of Celera in the late 1990s, BioTransport was added to the Dow.
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