Mehums, enhants, and more...

[Michael Quinion]

David Colburn wrote:

> Here's an article from the Sunday NYTimes about lingo used by
> "extropians". Wordspy and others might be interested:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/weekinreview/04BOXB.html

This writer was certainly interested, since it can be neatly wedged
into a piece about Prince Charles, nanotechnology, grey goo, and
related matters that is to appear in World Wide Words this weekend.

There's a little more about the meeting organised by the Foresight
Institute last weekend that was the source of Barneby Feder's piece
at http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/spring2003/topics.html

A "mehum" by the way (sometimes written as "MeHum") would seem to be
a shortened version of "mere human", as opposed to cyborgs, augments,
enhants and other artificially augmented intelligences.


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Michael Quinion
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