Timeline of transhumanism
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Big picture
| 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. |
Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | 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. | ||
| 1988 | English/Californian philosopher Max More publishes the first issue of Extropy Magazine. The term “extropy” represents a concept contrary to that of entropy, indicating that Transhumanists pursue a growth of order rather than chaos. | United States |
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What the timeline is still missing
- Category:Transhumanists
- Fereidoun M. Esfandiary
- Natasha Vita-More
