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NatashaVita-More is a cultural strategist and designer. She was the recipient of theBrooks Museum Award, honored at “Women in Video,” and is receiving internationalrecognition for the "Primo Posthuman" future body prototype. Natashais listed in Who’s Who in America 2006,has been interviewed by Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Times, U.S. News& World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, and the Village Voice, and has appeared in morethan a dozen televised documentaries on the aesthetics of the future. Natashais President of Extropy Institute, a think tank on the future of technology.She earned her BFA from the University of Memphis, MS in Future Studies fromthe University of Houston, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Universityof Plymouth’s Planetary Colloquium.
Primo 3M+ is a prototype future body, a conceptual design with superlongevity in mind. Primo by design is multi-functional. It is reliable, changeable, upgradeable, and complete with enhanced senses. Primo is the new designer body.
Originally posted 2002 and excerpted from www.natasha.cc/primo.htm. Published on KurzweilAI.net February 20, 2002.If you could design your own body–give it any shape, size, color, contour, texture and elegant design–what would you choose?
What if your body could regenerate healthier, fresher skin and substitute worn out tendons, ligaments and joints with replaceable ones? What if your body was as sleek, as sexy, and felt as comfortable as your new automobile? These are just a few of the questions to consider in the decades ahead.... RAY KURZWEIL SITE ACCELARATING INTELLIGENCE
