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>
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Brussels
- Place of death
- New York City
- Employer
- Florida International University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Persian
- Religion
- atheism
- Participant in
- 1948 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- basketball
- Country for sport
- Iran
- Image
- FM2030.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1930-10-15
- date of death
- 2000-07-08
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- FM-2030
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- pseudonym
- FM-2030
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
via Wikidata · CC0
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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.