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INFORMATION ON EXTROPY AND EXTROPY INSTITUTE
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EXTROPY
The Journal Of Transhumanist Thought
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EXTROPY is a journal of ideas, covering the following areas:
      - Transhumanism and futurist philosophy
      - Life extension, cryonics, and physical immortalism
      - Artificial intelligence and personality uploading
      - Smart drugs (nootropics) and other intelligence increase technologies
      - Critical thinking, effective reasoning and information-filtering
      - Digital economy (electronic money, markets, information security)
      - Electronic communications in the future
      - Critical analysis of environmentalism
      - Nanotechnology (molecular machines and computers)
      - Memetics (ideas as viruses)
      - Developing free communities, on the oceans, in space, and in cyberspace
      - Spontaneous orders (markets, neural networks, evolutionary processes)
      - Rational social decision-making (idea futures markets, etc)
      - Psychology o self-transformation
      - Ultimate limits of physics
      - Artificial life
 
Edited by Max More. Subscriptions and letters to EXTROPY:  P.O. Box 57306, Los
Angeles, CA 90057-0306.  Tel/fax: 213-484-6383.  E-mail: more@uc.edu
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:  [Valid until January 1 1994]
USA:  $13.50/3 issues  (Institutions $30)
Canada and Mexico:  $15  (Institutions $33)
Overseas:  $22 (airmail), $16 (surface);  (Institutions $45/$33)
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Foreign orders mut be made in U.S. dollars - cash or check drawn on a 
U.S. bank.
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EXTROPY is published twice per year (January & July). Make checks payable to 
"Extropy Institute."  Subscriptions will start with the current issue unless 
you specfy otherwise.
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FORTHCOMING ISSUE:  #10, vol.4, no.2 (Winter/Spring 1993):
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Now with a color cover, #10 will feature:
Another Hans Moravec article, Pigs in Cyberspace
Nanocomputing, by J. Storrs Hall (moderator of sci.nanotec)
Digital Economy (electronic markets and privacy technology)
Technological Self-Transformation
Julian Simon's Bunkrapt: The Abstractions that Lead to Scares About 
Resources and Population
An interview with Mark Miller of Xanadu
Plus detailed reviews of Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns,
"Beyond the Poor Man's Extropianism: A Review of Two Books About Ayn 
Rand and Objectivism," Drexler's Nanosystems, and Gleick's Feynmann.
[#10 due out January 1993]


CURRENT ISSUE:  #9, vol.4 no.1 (Summer 1992)

The Extropian Principles 2.0		Max More
Extropy Institute Launches		Max More
Person's, Progras, and Uploading Consciousness
					David Ross
Nanotechnology and Faith		J. Storrs Hall
The Making of a Small World (fiction)	R. Michael Perry
Genetic Algorithms			Simon! D. Levy
Time Travel and Computing		Hans Moravec
Futique Neologisms 3
Exercise and Longevity			Fran Finney
The Transhuman Taste (Reviews):
	The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
	The Blind Watchmaker
	The Ultimate Resource, Population Matters, The Resourceful Earth
	Bionomics


BACK ISSUES:
#7, 8: $4.50 each; #1,2,4,5,6,: $4 each
Add $0.50 each for Canadian orders; $1.25/$3.00 each overseas surface/airmail.

#8 (Winter 1991-92), Vol.3, No.2

Idea Futures: Encouraging an Honest Consensus	Robin Hanson
Dynamic Optimism				Max More
Neurocomputing 5: Artificial Life		Simon! D. Levy
Futique Neologisms (futurist lexicon)
Extropia: A Home for Our Hopes                  Tom Morrow
Human-Transhuman-Posthuman                      Max More
Reviews of: Stiegler's David's Sling, Drexler's Unbounding the Future, 
Platt's The Silicon Man.
News of scientific advances and movement news.
Reviews of zines.
 

#7 (Spring 1991):
A Memetic Approach to 'Selling' Cryonics        H. Keith Henson & Arel Lucas.
Privately Produced Law                          Tom W. Bell [Tom Morrow]
Order Without Oderers                           Max More
Futique Neologisms
Neurocomputing 4: Self-Organization in Artificial Neural Networks
                                                Simon! D. Levy
Forum on Transhumanism
Reviews of Smart Pills, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann, Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition; and more...


#6 (Summer 1990):
Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy    Max More
The Thermodynamics of Death                     Michael C. Price
The Opening of the Transhuman Mind              Mark Plus
The Extropian Principles                        Max More
Neurocomputing Part 3                           Simon! D. Levy
Forum on Arch-Anarchy and Deep Anarchy
Reviews: Order Out of Chaos, The Emperors New Mind, A Neurocomputational 
Perspective, Loompanics Greatest Hits, The Machinery of Freedom
Extropian Resources, and more.


#5 (Winter 1990):
Forum: Art and Communication
Leaping the Abyss                               Gregory Benford
Arch-Anarchy                                    A
Deep Anarchy                                    Max O'Connor
I am a Child                                    Fred Chamberlain
Perceptrons (Neurocomputng 2)                   Simon D. Levy
On Competition and Species Loss                 Max O'Connor
A Review of Intoxication                        Rob Michels
Intelligence at Work                            Max O'Connor and
                                                Simon D. Levy
Extropian Resources                             Max O'Connor and Tom W. Bell
The Extropian Declaration                       Tom W. Bell and Max O'Connor
Our Enemy, `The State'                          Max O'Connor and Tom W. Bell


#4 (Summer 1989):
Forum
In Praise of the Devil                          Max O'Connor
Neurocomputing                                  Simon D. Levy
Why Monogamy?                                   Tom. W. Bell
What's Wrong With Death?                        Max O'Connor
Reviews: Are You a Transhuman?
Postscript to `Morality or Reality,'            Max O'Connor
Effcient Aesthetics                             Tom. W. Bell
Intelligence at Work: Advances in Science       Max O'Connor


#2 (Winter 1989):
Review of Mind Children                         Max O'Connor
Darwin's Difficulty                             H. Keith Henson and Arel Lucas
A Truly Instant Breakfast                       Steven B. Harris M.D.
Wisdomism                                       Tom W. Bell
Nanotechnology Nes                              Max O'Connor
Weirdness Watch                                 Mark E. Potts


#1 (Fall 1988):
A brief overview of extropian philosophy and an introduction to some of the 
topics we plan to address: AI Intelligence Increase Technologies, Immortalism,
Nanotechnology, Spontaneous Orders, Psychochemicals, Extropic Psychology, 
Morality, Mindfucking, Space Colonization, Libertarian Economics and Politics,
Memetics, and Aesthetic; "Morality or Reality," by Max O'Connor.

#3 (Spring 1989) is out of print.

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Foreign orders must be made in U.S. dollars - cash or check drawn on a U.S. bank.


EXTROPY INSTITUTE (ExI)

Extropy Institute members receive Extropy, plus the ExI's bi-monthly 
newsletter, Exponent -- featuring Extropian news, reviews of non-fiction and 
fiction books, as well as movies and software, an Environmental Rationality 
section devoted to skeptical analysis of extreme environmentalist claims, and 
Intelligence At Work - a roundup of vital advances in science and technology.

Members also receive discounts on T-shirts, books, tapes, conferences, and 
other items.


USA:               $30          Sustaining member:           $100
Canada/Mexico:     $33          Corporate Sustaining
Overseas:          $40                     Member:           $250


Make checks payable to "Extropy Institute," and mail to: Extropy Institute,
P.O. Box 57306, Los Angeles, CA 90057-0306.     Inquiries: (213) 484-6383.
E-mail: more@usc.edu
Foreign orders:  Payment must be in US dollars: Cash, traveller's check, or 
check drawn on a US bank.


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Russell Earl Whitaker                   whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor                       71750.2413@compuserve.com
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought         AMiX: RWHITAKER
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
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