Timeline of transhumanism

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Time period	Development summary	More details
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.

Year	Event type	Details
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
1986	Literature	American engineer K. Eric Drexler publishes Engines of Creation, which assumes the possibility of building so-called “nano-machines”.	United States
1988	Literature	Austrian-born Canadian computer scientist Hans Moravec publishes Mind Children, which discusses the forthcoming development of intelligent machines.

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