Re: LIFESCIENCE: last and first men

[Trevor <tebatt@dds.nl>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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On 11-May-99, speer wrote:

>I'd like to know who has read Olaf stapledons"last and first men" ...
>stopping to think for a moment about lifesceinces,, and i see moravec and
>dawkins and all the rest i might connect with this science and i realize
>that the "bible" for this type of thought just might be olafs book... it's
>pretty comprehensive in it's range of mutation and evolution,, involution,,
>electrovolution,, cybervolution,, etc etc ... where did he see it end,,,
>in a beautiful music that was man.

This sounds interesting (although I am not such a romantic believer in
"man") -is there a summary available?

greetings,
Trevor Batten

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