On September 4, 1972, the novelist and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary published an editorial on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict. Titled “A Plague on Both Your Tribes,” it announced that the situation had become a “monumental bore”: that the leadership had failed, and the antagonists, “acting like adolescents, […]
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Searching for Identity in Iran’s Labyrinthine Bureaucracy
F.M. Esfandiary’s novel “Identity Card” was published in the mid-1960s. A dissection of the inhuman absurdities of the Iranian bureaucratic system, it is a book that has lost nothing of its relevance under the mullahs, as Ilija Trojanow, translator of the newly published German translation, tells Nimet Seker. Mr Trojanow, F.M. Esfandiary’s novel was published […]
Are you a transhuman?
The etymology of the term “transhuman” goes back to futurist philosopher FM-2030, formerly known as F. M. Esfandiary, who, while teaching new concepts of the human at New School University in 1966, introduced it as shorthand for “transitory human.” Calling transhumans the “earliest manifestation of new evolutionary beings,” FM argued that signs of transhumanity included […]
Johnny Boston Remembers FM-2030
Johnny Boston recounts his twenty-year long friendship with FM-2030. Read the essay online at LightMillennium.org.
Light Millennium Interviews Flora Schnall about FM-2030
Light Millennium interviewed Flora Schnall, FM-2030’s long-term companion, colleague, and supporter about his life and future. Read Part 1 and Part 2 online at LightMillennium.org.
Light Millennium Interviews Professor Gabriel Grayson
Light Millennium interviewed Professor Gabriel Grayson of the New School who was once FM-2030’s student. Professor Grayson shares his memories of FM-2030 and his dream since his cryonic-suspension last summer. Read the interview online at LightMillennium.org.
The Futurist: FM-2030
Two months ago I received word that an old and valued acquaintance had died. He was the futurist author, F.M. Esfandiary — who in the mid-1970’s– had legally changed his name to FM-2030. He was, he said, “a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th.” He confessed to having “a deep nostalgia […]
A Tribute to FM-2030
The visions of the future held by FM-2030 were strong. So strong and so positive, perhaps, that they might have almost been paralyzing to most of those who read what he wrote and heard what he said. For decades, those who followed him saw the future unfolding just as he told them it might. Yet […]
FM-2030, Futurist
He was so forward thinking in terms of the human potential that he changed his name to FM-2030 and fiercely proclaimed his belief that he would never, ever die. But on Saturday night, the Miami futurist – who taught a course on “transhumanism’” at Florida International University, died at a friend’s apartment in Manhattan. Aware […]
Futurist Known as FM-2030 Is Dead at 69
A futurist who changed his given name to something a little more forward looking, FM-2030 to be specific, died Saturday night at a friend’s Manhattan apartment. An author, teacher and consultant to corporations, he was 69 and lived in Miami. The FM might have stood for Future Man, Future Modular or Future Marvel, but he […]