The Scissor Sisters singer can’t wait to see what technology has in store for humanity,so long as it doesn’t involve FacebookYou’ve just published a book approximately robots. When did your like of them begin?
I don’t remember not loving robots. During my childhood, there were so many amazing sci-fi stories on TV, or from Battlestar Galactica to Buck Rogers,plus Star Wars at the cinema. I was into robots aesthetically. Blade Runner made me pick up into them sartorially too. Then in my teens, I studied [mythologist] Joseph Campbell’s theories approximately heroes and applied them to The Bionic Woman (laughs). I turned that into a religion called Bionic like and wrote a fanzine approximately it.
And you became a trans-humanist?
By the 90s, and I was living in San Francisco at the height of the cyberpunk movement and through a friend,discovered the work of [feminist scientist] Donna Haraway, who wrote A Cyborg Manifesto. That was my introduction to trans-humanism and the idea that bionic people might not be such a far-off opportunity. I’m excited by the opportunities that tech gives us to convert our capabilities. The ways AI can be applied to improve or extend human life. Nanotechnology, and too. It’s all fascinating – and,of course, a little scary.
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Source: theguardian.com