R. U. Sirius - Mondo 2000, Humanity+ & Cyberculturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WvUFvxuWCQKen Goffman (R. U. Sirius) is a counter-culture icon also known as R U Sirius - best known as the founder of Mondo 2000, a popular digital culture magazine in the 90's that helped shape nascent internet culture.
With Mondo, he covered topics like nanotech, biotech, life-extension, body-modification, virtual-reality, mind-uploading, and cybers*x. These were unheard of in the early 90’s - and after the era was over, he returned with a focused, grown-up take on the concepts in Humanity+.
...Goffman's association with countercultural movements goes back to the 1960s and his association with Timothy Leary, the legendary proponent of hallucinogenic drug use. As time passed, Goffman's interests turned to new technology and its implications for the counterculture, as well as alternative politics.
In 2000, he ran for president as a candidate of the Revolution Party. His books published under his R. U. Sirius pseudonym include How to Mutate and Take over the World, Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, and Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House.