Subject: Extropy: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought
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Extropy information: October 20 1992

EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought is a journal of ideas,
dedicated to discussing and developing themes in 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 checks, markets, information security)
 - Electronic communications in the future
 - Nanotechnology applications
 - Bionomics (economy as ecosystem)
 - Memetics (information in evolutionary terms)
 - Space habitation
 - Spontaneous orders (markets, neural networks, evolutionary processes)
 - Rational social decision-making (idea futures, etc)
 - Extropic, self-transformative psychology
 - Ultimate limits of physics
 - Artificial life
  
  
Editor: Max More. Subscriptions and letters to EXTROPY: P.O. Box
57306, Los Angeles, CA 90057-0306. Tel/fax: 213-484-6383. E-mail:
more@usc.edu
 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:  [As of July 28 1992]

USA: $9 ($20 institutions)
Canada and Mexico: $10  (Institutions $22)
Overseas: $15 (airmail), $11 (surface);  (Institutions $30/$22)
 
Foreign orders must be made in U.S. dollars - cash or check drawn on a
U.S. bank.
 
EXTROPY is published twice per year. Make checks payable to 
"Extropy Institute".
Subscriptions will start with the current issue unless you specify otherwise. 
[Temporary change:  Since I have few copies of #9 left, the first issue you 
will receive will be #10 in Jnaury, unless you specifically request to start 
with #9.]
If a new issue has come out recently, subscribing for a year - two issues - 
may mean that your subscription will actually expire in only 6, 7, or 8 months.

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

The Extropian Principles, 2.0	            	 	[Max More]
Extropy Institute Launches				[Max More]
Persons, Programs, 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; #5, 6: $4.00 each;  #1,2,4: $3 each.  (#3 not available 
excpet in abbreviated form in electronic form on AMIX.)

#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 W. Bell
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.
 

EXTROPY INSTITUTE (ExI)::

Membership (Includes subscriptions to Extropy and the bi-monthly
newsletter Exponent):
 	USA:					$30
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	Overseas:				$40  ($35 surface)

(If you already have a subscription to at least two more issues of
Extropy, subtract $9 from your first-year membership rate.)

	Sustaining Member:			$100
	Corporate Sustaining Member:		$250



Max More		more@usc.edu		AMIX:MMORE
Executive Director
Extropy Institute

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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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