Timeline of transhumanism

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1970s A Futurist subculture emerges.
1980s The first formal self-proclaimed Transhumanist meetings begin at the University of California, Los Angeles, which becomes the main center of Transhumanist thinking.

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1909 Futurism originates in Italy as an artistic and social movement, with the publication of the Futurist Manifesto by poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who explains the principles underlying his view of art, in search for a style representing technology and machines. Italy
1910 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes L'Uomo Moltiplicato ed il Regno della Macchina. Italy
1915 A text by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero titled Ricostruzione futurista dell’universo, introduces the terms superhuman and demiurgical tendencies. Italy
1964 American academic Robert Ettinger publishes The Prospect of Immortality, which promotes the practice of freezing clinically dead people to guarantee them a possible future resuscitation. Ettinger is known as "the father of cryonics". United States
1972 Robert Ettinger publishes Man into Superman, which proposes what would considered a Transhumanist proposal; this is, a number of improvements to the standard human being. United States
1980 American strategic designer Natasha Vita-More presents her experimental film Breaking Away. United States

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