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A High Frontier A High Frontier
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H.O.M.E.s for Sale? H.O.M.E.s for Sale?
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Countercultural Consideration of Space Settlements Countercultural Consideration of Space Settlements
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Many Are Cold, Few Are Frozen Many Are Cold, Few Are Frozen
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Keep on SMI2LEing Keep on SMI2LEing
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8 Timothy Leary’s Transhumanist SMI2LE
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Published:May 2016
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Following his release from prison in 1976, counterculture guru Timothy Leary began to espouse a new plan for experimentation if not human enhancement. SMI2LE was Leary’s moniker for “space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension.” For the next several years, Leary promoted an evolving recipe for self-directed human mutation in public appearances, books, and even comics. This essay explores Leary’s ideas and connects them to other ’70s-era examples of science and technology that lingered at the fringes of respectability. It also shows how Leary’s techno-trip served as a stepping stone to the more activist-oriented transhumanist movement of the 1990s which embraced – as did Leary – a combination of radical technologies including cryonics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence.
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