Citizen Cyborg

Reporting from the margins, before they become the new mainstream... Found the mini-empire of Dr. J the other day - a 'democratic transhumanist', no less. I think this means that he wants all those technologies that put materials and biology 'into play' - infotech, biotech, and nanotech - to be the responsibility of capable, informed citizens, rather than political or commercial elites. Dr.J has a radio-show with some excellent interviews (my favorite being the account of how Brazil introduced a citizen's income), and a book out next month called Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. He also runs a blog called Cyborg Democracy, which claims as its constituency:

"democratic transhumanists, nanosocialists, revolutionary singularitarians, non-anthropocentric personhood theorists, radical futurists, leftist extropians, bioutopians and
biopunks, socialist-feminist cyborgs, transgenders, body modifiers, basic income advocates, world federalists, agents of the Culture and the Cassini Division, Viridians and technoGaians"

And if the trans-sexuals seem out of place here...well, the people just voted for Nadia. Er, what are the limits of play again?