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FM-2030
FM-2030

FM-2030 was a transhumanist philosopher and futurist. Transhumanism (sometimes symbolized by >H or H+) a term often used as a synonym for " Human enhancement " is an international intellectual Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science art and practice of postulating possible probable and preferable futures and the worldviews FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری) (October 15, 1930–July 8, 2000). Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition he wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. M. Esfandiary. The son of an Iranian diplomat, he traveled widely as a child,[1] living in 17 countries by age 11;[2] then, as a young man, he represented Iran in the 1948 Olympic Games[3] and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954. The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP was formed in the May 1947 in response to the British Governments announcement to terminate Mandate of Palestine. [4] On July 8, 2000, FM-2030 died from pancreatic cancer and was placed in cryonic suspension at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, where his body remains today. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor of the Pancreas. Each year about 37680 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition and 34290 Cryonics is the low-temperature Preservation of Humans and other Animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary Medicine until The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is a Scottsdale, Arizona, USA -based Nonprofit company that researches advocates for and performs Cryonics Scottsdale ( O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Yaqui Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. [1]

F. M. Esfandiary changed his name to FM-2030 for two main reasons. Firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030; Secondly, and more importantly, to break free of the widespread practice of naming conventions that are rooted in a collectivist mentality, and exist only as a relic of humankind's tribalistic past. A naming convention is a convention for naming things The intent is to allow useful information to be deduced from the names based on regularities Traditional names almost always stamp a label of collective identity - varying from gender, to nationality - on the individual, thereby existing as prima facie elements of thought processes in the human cultural fabric, that tend to degenerate into stereotyping, factionalism, and discrimination. A collective identity refers to individuals' sense of belonging to a group (the Collective) In his own words, "Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years. [. . . ] The name 2030 reflects my conviction that the years around 2030 will be a magical time. In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal. "[5]

Many of FM-2030's predictions about social trends from the 1970s through the early 21st century proved remarkably prescient. [6] FM-2030 argued that the inherent dynamic of the modern globalizing civilization would bring such changes about despite the best efforts of conservative elites to enforce traditional beliefs. [7]

FM-2030 once said, "I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. "[8]


Books by FM-2030

Fiction
Non-fiction

External links

References

  1. ^ Shermer, Michael. Michael Brand Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale California) is an American science writer historian of science founder of The Skeptics Nano Nonsense and Cryonics.
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