The next Exponent newsletter will go into production soon. It's easier to send
it out all at once than individually to new members, so if we receive your
renewal by June 10, USA members can subtract $10. (Overseas folks already have
a lower rate...)
Max
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E X T R O P Y I N S T I T U T E
---Catalyzing the Future---
13428 Maxella Avenue, #273, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA
Tel: (310) 398-0375 <http://www.extropy.org/>www.extropy.org
exi-info@extropy.org
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Greetings! We’re sending you this information message either because you
requested it, or because someone suggested you would be interested. This
message tells you what Extropy Institute does and how to become involved. For
further information (and an online membership form), we encourage you to visit
our web site:
<http://www.extropy.org/>http://www.extropy.org
Max More, Ph.D. more@extropy.org
President Extropy Institute (ExI)
Extropy = the extent of a system’s intelligence, information, vitality,
diversity,
opportunity, and capacity for growth.
E X T R O P Y I N S T I T U T E
Extropy Institute (ExI) is a 501[c][3] tax-exempt educational corporation,
founded in 1992 as an outgrowth of the Extropy journal. ExI acts a catalyst
for
a better future by helping individuals extend their lives, augment their
intelligence, optimize their psychology, and improve their communities. The
Institute pursues this catalytic role in two ways: through a creative process
of networking and an educational process of disseminating ideas.
In its creative role, the Institute brings together the finest critical and
innovative minds in an intellectual and social network. This network of
thinkers challenges conventional ideas about human limits and develops new
ideas about the use of technologies of all kinds to improve the future.
Seeking
to develop careful thinking about extending the human life span, augmenting
human intelligence, improving human psychology, and refining economic and
political organization, Extropy Institute provides several forums for
networking and creative thinking. The Exponent newsletter gathers news of
developments, members’ projects, and Institute activities. The EXTRO
conferences bring together thinkers from numerous fields of study. Other
seminars and local meetings, the Extropians email list, and the web site
provide additional forums for developing and refining ideas.
In its educational role, the Institute brings these (always open and evolving)
extropian ideas to the public in order to encourage more rational practices
and
beliefs. The Institute’s web site provides information on extropian thinking
and links to further resources. Extropy Online presents extropian thinking
gathered from the best minds in a manner accessible to intelligent
non-specialists. The EXTRO conferences, in addition to their networking role,
also act as a means of communicating current extropian thinking to the public.
The Institute disseminates ideas and educates the public through
appearances of
its members on television and in newspapers, magazines, and books, and by
representing extropian perspectives at conferences and in debates.
In essence, the Institute seeks to catalyze continual discoveries that extend
our lives and increase the power and depth of our minds. While Institute
members may hold diverse and sometimes conflicting ideas about how to pursue
these ends, we agree in affirming the values expressed in the Extropian
Principles: Boundless Improvement, Self-Transformation, Self-Ownership,
Dynamic
Optimism, Intelligent Technology, and Spontaneous Order. [see
<http://www.extropy.org/extprn26.htm%5D>www.extropy.org/extprn26.htm]
E X T R O P I A N S O N T H E N E T
Extropy Institute sponsors a number of forums for sharing limit-busting,
life-extensionist, pro-technology, and other extropian ideas with bright,
like-minded individuals around the globe.
You can also access the Frequently Asked Questions file, and other Extropian
writings, on the World Wide Web. The official ExI Web page:
<http://www.extropy.org/>http://www.extropy.org
The most popular service is the Extropians e-mail list (founded in 1991),
which
boils over with lively discussion and debate on numerous topics. You can join
the members-only list by sending a message to:
extropians-request@extropy.org
In the body of your message put only the following:
subscribe extropians <your e-mail address>
You can also unsubscribe yourself at any time in the same way, by replacing
"subscribe" with "unsubscribe". For other Majordomo commands, send to the
above address with "help" in the body of the message (and nothing else).
You can find a web-based interface to the lists at:
<http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/exi-lists>http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/exi
-lists
There are several local lists for announcements and discussions around Los
Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Coast, and Europe. To subscribe,
substitute for "extropians" in the first command above:
exi-la or exi-bay or exi-east exi-can (Canada) or exi-euro
A Hypermail archive of postings to the Extropian list can be found at:
<http://www.lucifer.com/extropians>http://www.lucifer.com/extropians/
E X T R O P Y O N L I N E
Moving to the web in its tenth year, Extropy is a magazine covering the full
range of advanced, emerging, and future technologies with an emphasis on
making
you more informed and prepared. Some of the technologies and issues covered in
EXTROPY:
* Life extension treatments, nutritional supplements, the latest anti-aging
drugs.
* Advances in computers and human-computer interaction and integration.
* How to augment your intelligence through nutrients, new smart drugs, and
cognitive techniques.
* How to modify your mood and motivation with new drugs, and cognitive
management.
* Where does traditional thinking about radical technologies go wrong?
* How can we refine our political and social organization? How can
spontaneous order enable us to handle accelerating change?
* Rethinking traditional moralities in the face of scientific and
technological breakthroughs.
* Plus: Nanotechnology and molecular computers; artificial wombs and new
methods of parenting; transhumanist philosophy to make sense of rapid change;
prosexual drugs and nutrients; critical thinking about environmental and
resource issues; electronic money and competing currencies; machine
intelligence and artificial life; experimental communities, the future of
privacy.
* The Advances section will help you stay ahead of the pack with information
on crucial technological developments.
If you're tired of shallow, trendy, or uncritical thinking on the
technological
frontier, Extropy will satisfy, startle, and stimulate you.
"I love it. Extropy excites the hell out of my mind." ZL, 1/93
"In general I would call it the best periodical I have ever seen in my
life..." AC, 8/92
"I just wanted to let you know that Extropy keeps getting better & better!
(as, of course, it must in order to be so named). What a uniformly excellent,
eclectic, thoughtful, well-written selection of articles. By far the most
thought-provoking, ground-breaking stuff in any magazine I read." [PG, 7/94]
Note: Extropy moved to the Web in February 1998: http://www.extropy.org/eo/
Most back issues are still available in print. URL:
http://www.extropy.org/extropy.htm
E X T R O C O N F E R E N C E S
Our successful third conference, EXTRO-3, took place in San Jose,
California in
August 1997, with Dr. Eric Drexler of the Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing
as keynote speaker. 165 attendees a range of stimulating sessions and talked
with some of the leading extropic thinkers of today. Audio and videotapes of
all the sessions are available (at a discount for Institute members).
EXTRO-4, focusing on extension of the maximum human life span (both the
research being done, what measures can be taken today, and the economic and
psychological consequences), is being planned for early 1999, either in
California, Las Vegas, or Santa Fe. Members will receive updates, which will
also appear on the web site.
E X P O N E N T N E W S L E T T E R
Our members’ newsletter, Exponent, will become be sent by email only beginning
with the third quarter 1998 issue. We will also be putting back issues on the
web.
E X T R O P Y I N S T I T U T E M E M B E R S R E C E I V E:
Student members ($30):
Exponent newsletter.
Discounts on conferences and seminars.
Subscription to Extropian email list.
Members ($95):
Exponent newsletter.
Discounts on conferences and seminars.
Invitations to all Extropy Institute social events per year, at least in
LA/Bay
Area.
Can sponsor one student or other person of your choice for membership.
Subscription to Extropians email list.
Complimentary T-shirt, mug, or mousepad on renewal.
One free conference audio tape.
Benefactors ($500 per year for 3 years, or $750 for 1 year):
Exponent newsletter.
Discounts on conferences, seminars, and local speaker meetings.
Invitations to all Extropy Institute social events per year, at least in
LA/Bay
Area.
Complimentary T-shirt, mug, or mousepad.
One free conference audio tape.
Can sponsor one student or other person of your choice.
Subscription to Extropians email list.
Free entry to ExI NodeNet forums.
Special invitations to parties.
Special Benefactor-only gatherings.
Complimentary T-shirts and mousepad.
Extra access to speakers at conferences.
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publications, information on events, and discounts on conferences, books,
tapes, and other items. Annual rates:
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Benefactor: $500 per year for 3 years, or $750/one year.
[Amounts over the basic membership rate are tax-deductible]
EXTROPY magazine:
Back issues available: 1,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 - $7 each (members:
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