FM-2030
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, F. M. Esfandiary
FM-2030 (born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary; ; October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000) was a Belgian-born Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist, consultant, and Olympic athlete.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Are You a Transhuman?
- Identity card
- The day of sacrifice
- The day of sacrifice
- The Beggar
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 36
- Total plays
- 75
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/FM-2030">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial
· 2007 · cited 1,682x
- Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial
· 2007 · cited 1,629x
- Colorectal cancer screening: Clinical guidelines and rationale
· 1997 · cited 1,489x
- Selective and divided attention during visual discriminations of shape, color, and speed: functional anatomy by positron emission tomography
· 1991 · cited 1,199x
- A PET study of visuospatial attention
· 1993 · cited 1,164x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.”
- “People will belong to no specific families or factions, classes or sects, races or nationalities. We will free flow across the planet and beyond. Highly universal, yet individual.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Writer.name
- FM-2030
- Writer.image
- File:FM2030.jpg
- Writer.birth_name
- Fereidoun M. Esfandiary
- Writer.birth_place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Writer.death_place
- New York City, U.S.
- Writer.resting_place
- Cryopreserved at Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- Writer.education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Writer.occupation
- Writer, philosopher, teacher, consultant
- Writer.nationality
- Iranian-American
- Writer.genre
- Science fiction, futurology
- Writer.movement
- Transhumanism
- Writer.notableworks
- Are You a Transhuman?
via Wikipedia infobox
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Name change and opinions
- Personal life
- Death
- Published works
- Cultural references
- See also
- References
- External links
FM-2030 (born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary; ; October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000) was a Belgian-born Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist, consultant, and Olympic athlete.
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. He wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F. M. Esfandiary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FM-2030” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.