The following is information on the Journal Extropy, details on the current
issue Extropy, and how to join the Extropy Institute (ExI).

It is provided by Max More who is the Executive Director
of the Extropy Institute.

This information is Copyleft.

/Harry Shapiro
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Extropy information: August 19 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
- 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
- Scientific eschatology (avoiding the heat death of the universe, etc)
- 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".
Subscriptions will start with the current issue unless you specify otherwise. 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 ISSUE:
#8: $4.50.

#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:

Membership (Includes subscriptions to Extropy and the bi-monthly
newsletter Exponent.):

	USA:					$30
	Canada/Mexico:				$33
	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