Aaah... somebody mentioned the book alt.culture and I remembered
that they have a web site at www.altculture.com
(It's actually cool, just try their "auto-pilot" feature for a TV-like
experience :-)
Here's what they have to say at
http://pathfinder.com/altculture/aentries/e/extropians.html
Extropians
[Image:Extropian logo (Extropy Institute)]
California-based nonprofit mini-cult of fewer than 500 members built on
the belief that future technologies will overcome problems that today
seem insoluble. Immortality through technology is a central tenet of
Extropianism: fervent hopes for the future include cryogenics, time
travel, and uploading one's consciousness to a computer. The
organization, whose guiding light is an Englishman called Max More (b.
Max O'Connor), also embraces libertarian thinkers such as Ayn Rand;
ideas like privatizing the air are expounded in the magazine Extropy,
as are neologisms like "de-animation" (death), "disasturbation"
(wishful disaster scenarios), and "smart-faced" (stoned). The
Extropians' slender achievements were hymned in a lengthy 1994 _Wired_
feature.
<A HREF="http://www.c2.org/~arkuat/extr/">Extropians and Other
Transhumans</A>
<A HREF="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</A>
more@extropy.org
info@extropy.org
Bart Troyan
bart@blacksmith.com