Newt Gingrich - The Transhumanist Candidate?
caliban 30 Jan 2012
Gingrich calls for moon base, space contests
http://www.reuters.c...E80P05K20120126
Does Newt Gingrich want to make Neuromancer come true?
by Annalee Newitz
http://io9.com/5866014/does-newt-gingrich-want-to-make-neuromancer-come-true
The Futurist Interviews Newt Gingrich, former U.S. House Speaker
interview by Patrick Tucker
http://www.wfs.org/node/718
Gingrich, Toffler and Conservatism
New York Discussion Group
Lawrence Auster, April 6, 1995
http://www.amnation....ves/021106.html
Edited by caliban, 31 January 2012 - 01:10 AM.
further material
http://www.reuters.c...E80P05K20120126
Does Newt Gingrich want to make Neuromancer come true?
by Annalee Newitz
http://io9.com/5866014/does-newt-gingrich-want-to-make-neuromancer-come-true
The Futurist Interviews Newt Gingrich, former U.S. House Speaker
interview by Patrick Tucker
http://www.wfs.org/node/718
Gingrich, Toffler and Conservatism
New York Discussion Group
Lawrence Auster, April 6, 1995
http://www.amnation....ves/021106.html
Edited by caliban, 31 January 2012 - 01:10 AM.
further material
Mind 30 Jan 2012
Gingrich is probably the most forward thinking/futurist of the candidates, as far as I have seen. However, I am naturally drawn to Ron Paul's libertarian ideology.
Link 31 Jan 2012
This is a good discussion with Neil DeGrasse Tyson about why Newt's moon base won't work.
http://video.msnbc.m...152472#46152472
http://video.msnbc.m...152472#46152472
howardarizona 01 Feb 2012
I think the main reason that Newt Gingrich would want to build colonies on the moon is for the super rich elites, the 1% if you will, to live, after Earth is hardly habitable from the ravages of global warming, environmental degradation, war, crime and other symptoms of extreme resource and income inequality. How many of us on this forum would be able to afford what it must cost to live on a colony on the moon, except perhaps as a servant to one of the elite?
moleface 19 Feb 2013
If by "transhumanist" you mean that the guy's barely a human being, I totally agree.
On edit - I just woke up and I didn't realize I was bumping a year-old topic to post my lame joke. Oh well.
Edited by moleface, 19 February 2013 - 03:38 PM.
On edit - I just woke up and I didn't realize I was bumping a year-old topic to post my lame joke. Oh well.
Edited by moleface, 19 February 2013 - 03:38 PM.