Editing FM-2030 (section)

==Name change and opinions==
In 1970, after publishing his book ''Optimism One'',<ref name=Vice>{{Cite web |title=The Frozen Father of Modern Transhumanism |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-frozen-father-of-moden-transhumanism/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=Vice |date=October 14, 2015 |language=en |archive-date=January 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120132314/https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3kjj/the-frozen-father-of-moden-transhumanism |url-status=live }}</ref> F. M. Esfandiary<ref name="nyt" /> started going by FM-2030 for two main reasons: firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030; secondly, and more importantly, to break free of the widespread practice of [[naming conventions]] that he saw as rooted in a [[Collectivism and individualism|collectivist]] mentality, and existing only as a relic of humankind's tribalistic past. He formalized his name change in 1988. He viewed traditional names as almost always stamping a label of [[collective identity]] – varying from [[gender]] to nationality – on the individual, thereby existing as prima facie elements of thought processes in the human cultural fabric, that tended to degenerate into stereotyping, factionalism, and discrimination. In his own words, "Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years. [...] The name 2030 reflects my conviction that the years around 2030 will be a magical time. In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal."<ref name=npr>{{cite web |author=All Things Considered |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076532 |title=Fm-2030 |publisher=NPR |date=2000-07-11 |access-date=2011-03-12 |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116185111/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076532 |url-status=live }}</ref> As a staunch anti-nationalist, he believed "There are no illegal immigrants, only irrelevant borders.".<ref name=tampabay>{{cite web|author=FM-2030|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/12/05/government-no-longer-shapes-future/|title=Government no longer shapes future|work=Tampa Bay Times|date=1994-12-05|access-date=2023-04-06|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406141351/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/12/05/government-no-longer-shapes-future/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1973, he published a political manifesto ''Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto'' in which he portrays both the [[Left-wing politics|ideological left]] and [[Right-wing politics|right]] as outdated, and in their place proposes a schema of Up-Wingers (those who look to the sky and the future) and Down-Wingers (those who look to the earth and the past).<ref name="Bellafiore">{{cite journal |last1=Bellafiore |first1=Robert |title=Accelerating to Where? |journal=The New Atlantis |date=Winter 2024 |number=75 |pages=75-85 |access-date=19 February 2025 |jstor=27283816 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27283816 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> FM-2030 identified with the former. He argued that the [[nuclear family]] structure and the idea of a city would disappear, being replaced by modular social communities he called ''mobilia'', powered by [[communitarianism]], which would persist and then disappear.<ref name=Vice />

FM-2030 believed that synthetic body parts would one day make life expectancy irrelevant; shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer, he described the [[pancreas]] as "a stupid, dumb, wretched organ".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-11-0007120009-story.html | title=Futurist Has Body Frozen in Hopes of Cancer Cure | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=July 11, 2000 | access-date=November 2, 2022 | archive-date=November 2, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102214940/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-11-0007120009-story.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

In terms of civilization, he stated: "No civilization of the past was great. They were all primitive and persecutory, founded on mass subjugation and mass murder." In terms of identity, he stated "The young modern is not losing his identity. He is gladly disencumbering himself of it." He believed that eventually, nations would disappear, and that identities would shift from cultural to personal. In a 1972 op-Ed in ''[[The New York Times]]'', he wrote that the leadership in the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]] had failed, and that the warring sides were "acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl", and he believed that the world was "irreversibly evolving beyond the concept of national homeland".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-future-takes-forever |title=The Future Takes Forever: Becoming FM-2030 |website=bidoun.org |access-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013132412/https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-future-takes-forever |url-status=live }}</ref>