Telespheres

by FM-2030

This book is about the dawn of a new and tremendously exciting new age of human development-The age that lies immediately before us.

Genres: Philosophy

173 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

FM-2030 (October 15, 1930 in Brussels – July 8, 2000 in New York) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری‎).

He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman? Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his birth name, F.M. Esfandiary.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11, then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

Reviews

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[Hendrik Little · Rating 2 out of 5]

Optimistic and well-intentioned but vague and naive to the point of laughable.

[Matthew Laing · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting as a historical insight into some of the ideas around transhumanism that arose in the 1970s, but as a work its idealistic and vacant. Its liberally peppered with invented portmanteaus that assume a utopian and totally changed future by 2010. Some of it is prescient and has come to pass - global networks of information and the decline of brick-and-mortar business being one. Some of it is prescient but yet to be fully realized - for example, the changing nature of the economy and work such that partial employment and increased leisure time are the norm. But most of it is utopianism resting on a transhumanist vision of the future that seems as far fetched now as it probably did then. Whether we will yet evolve further in directions he predicted is yet to be seen.