- That’s good.

The big question is, when he is revived, will he remember who he was he? Scientific achievement will, he believed be able to resuscitate him, hopefully by the year 2030, give him a new body of his choosing. I hope his memory of the 20^th century will be intact. We are storing a memory box with videotapes of him, photos, his writings and other materials which should jog his memory.

- I would like to refer to his own words about his name:

FM-2030 was born with a conventional name but he changed both his first name and his last name, to reflect his belief and his confidence in the future. He said that conventional names define a persons past, ancestry, ethnicity, nationality and religion. "I am not who I was 10 years ago and certainly not who I will be in 20 years. The name 2030 reflects my conviction that the years around 2030 will be a magical time. The solar system will be alive with people linking in and out of planets and moons and orbital communities. In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal."

- I know a movement started the publication of his book, "Are You A Transhuman?" but I don’t really think that his focus was the development of a transhuman movement nor do I think that he ascribes to all of the ideas that have developed. To FM, a "Transhuman", as he wrote, "…are the earliest manifestation of new evolutionary beings." Many of the breakthroughs embodied in transhumanism are nothing less than the beginning of the eventual transformation of the human "species".

FM was a philosopher and his books, "Optimism One", "Up-Wingers", "Telespheres" and "Are You A Transhuman", embody his ideas of optimism, universality, immortality and abundance.

FM had a very optimistic view not only of human nature but of the world and it’s future.

- One of the American utopist and science-fiction writer *Ursula DeGuin defines the "utopia" as a place we have dreamt about for a long time but never have reached there. Although if we have reached there, there won’t be any other place to go and it will be very controlled place because the concept of the ‘utopia’. Her definition has taught me that; we should re-define the concept of the utopia!

- Well, I don't think FM would agree with that vision at all. I think that he would think it was laughable. Remember, Huxley, wrote about 1884 and certainly that didn’t come to pass. Today with the flow of information through radio, TV and the Internet it is impossible to control the flow of and access to information. FM was always against embargoes because he felt contact with the rest of the world would help change. South African policies hanged because of world opinion the flow of information. Communism collapsed because of this free flow information. It is impossible to stop because it comes from so many sources, chat rooms on the web, the web is a global telephone a global information resource.

The other thing he focused on was, the fact that since man was no longer bound to the planet earth, resources were available is limitless abundance in Space.

- He felt that we would have space stations, that we would be exploding into the universe and that eventually earth would not be the only planet that was inhabited. He felt that the years ahead are going to be a magical time that in fact we would have going to be interplanetary travel.

- Another thing, the Clup De Rome in the 70’s, they were a group of pessimistic, doomsday scientists and economists, concluded that wrote the world would be overpopulated, and that resources to sustain the overpopulation would be scarce. That was a sign of 'single track thinking'. When you think about abundance and the resources we are discovering on the moon and on other planets, we have (or will have) there are unlimited resources. We haven't been able to harness them yet, but you know we are going to.

- Well, he went to the Olympics and he was a great athlete, but later he felt that competition was detrimental and he disliked the basis of the Olympics. He didn't like award ceremonies like the ‘Academy Awards’. He thought that this "who’s the best?", " who’s the prettiest?", "who’s the most informed?" were terrible things and that it was detrimental to the development of humankind. He felt that, man would strive to achieve with out this cut-throat ruthless, competition. Competition, he felt, ruins so many lives. He wanted the world to be a kinder, gentler, more humane place. I know he never supported or favored the idea of 'space olympics' or any other kind of competition. He felt it was a bad in the work place and bad in sports.

Well, you know there are changes taking place. I think there are more teams and teamwork in business, more cooperation between bosses and workers, there's less authoritarianism. There is a different air in the workplace - they have found that teamwork is more productive. The workplace atmosphere is exemplified by something that FM anticipated by about 30 years. He refused to wear a tie, anytime, never saw him in a tie for the past 30 years, wore comfortable clothes. Who would've anticipated just 10 years ago, that today, in law firms and in banks and all over the United States working people are dressing down, they don’t go to work with suits and ties. I mean, I'm a lawyer and I find it so refreshing that not just on Fridays anymore, but everyday is a dress down day. I think that shows a new informal air taking over the workplace where your will achieve more because your are going to work as a team and everyone will make suggestions, everybody’s going to work together to improve the product.

I guess, we can anticipate that eventually children will develop outside the body so that men and women can produce children. I mean, it doesn’t seem far-fetched to me. I guess one of the things that FM focused on was single track thinking. You can not forecast the future by looking to the past. Rather than looking back, you must look forward and imagine and integrate all the different forces that may impact and change things that are developing. Like in the 19th Century they were developing faster horses so that they could get between places faster not envisioning the development of new technologies like airplanes, railroads and cars.