Natasha Vita-More - Vita-More On Transhumanism History

Vita-More On Transhumanism History

In an interview Vita-More speaks on the history of transhumanism and its main initiators. Here is a short extract from the interview:

The first transhumanist ideas were presented by the author FM-2030 at the New School of Social Research in New York City in 1960s. I started Transhumanist Arts in the early 1980s based on my work generated in the late 1970s while living in Telluride, Colorado. Although FM influenced my work immensely early on, I continue to be influenced by many individuals who have an uncanny ability to understand the complexities of the future and make is warm and delightful.

However, living in California, and perhaps Hollywood, have given me a broader understanding of how the world works. It’s quite an enormous playing field. The incomparable philosopher Max More created Extropy Institute based on his extropian transhumanist philosophy in the 1980s. It was in the early 1990s that transhuman ideas started flourishing and this was certainly due to FM, Max and myself and others here in Southern California.