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>sources that we can read in regards to academics of the 1960 - 1970s talking about genetically modifying human beings for more effective advertising
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/history.pdf
> Another early transhumanist was F.M. Esfandiary, who later changed his name to FM-2030.
> One of the first professors of future studies, FM taught at the New School for Social Research in New York in the 1960s and formed a group of optimistic futurists known as the UpWingers.
> Who are the new revolutionaries of our time? They are the geneticists, biologists, physicists, cryonologists, biotechnologists,
> nuclear scientists, cosmologists, radio astronomers, cosmonauts, social scientists, youth corps volunteers, internationalists,
> humanists, science fiction writers, normative thinkers, inventors… They and others are revolutionizing the human condition
> in a fundamental way. Their achievements and goals go far beyond the most radical ideologies of the Old Order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030
For a deeper dive into the origins of many of the utopianist tropes about technology we embrace today, FM-2030 wrote this in 1973:
https://slowlorisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/esfandiary-up-wingers-a-futurist-manifesto.pdf
It's all about turning humans into transhuman permanent consumers to cope with the trend towards unemployment.
> Is there any public information about the flesh-eating army robot?
https://www.wearethemighty.com/robots-that-eat-people