[extropy-chat] VP Summit - Press Release - Comments Please!

[Jef Allbright]

The initiative and the effort are good.  The wording and focus need some
polishing.  An expert wordsmith will be able to emphasize the importance of
the key issues and the value of ExI while avoiding some of the inflammatory
rhetoric that would tend to alienate those who are currently neutral or
unaware of these issues.

- Jef

natashavita at earthlink.net wrote:
> Extropes and other Trans:  Please check out the press release and
> give me your feedback!
>
> Thanks,
> Natasha
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> PRESS RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 30, 2004
> CONTACT: info at extropy.org
> www.extropy.org
> 512.263.2749 U.S.
>
> BIOETHICS COUNCIL IS BEING QUESTIONED BY FUTURISTS WHO ENCOURAGE
> CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
>
> Innovator Extropy Institute Sponsors Vital Progress "VP" Summit To
> Address Human Rights for the Future
>
> AUSTIN, TX January 30, 2004 - The Vital Progress "VP" Summit announces
> today that it plans to deliver a written statement titled
> "ProActionary Statement" to counter President Bush's Bioethics
> Council's _Beyond Therapy_ report, and the use of the Precautionary
> Principle as a rallying tool to turn people against the science,
> medicine and biotechnology that could cure disease and improve life.
> The forces of negative reaction to progress are surging and we need
> to respond now.  Extropy Institute encourages critical thinking about
> the ideas, sciences, and technologies that will help people, our
> society, and the world.
>
> Extropy Institute has made a name for itself as an intellectual
> networking, educational organization, helping others to learn about
> long range planning and world change, while showing scholarship in
> joining together the ideas of philosophy, technology and culture.
>
> The "Vital Progress "VP" Summit, sponsored by Extropy Institute, will
> address the need for objective forward thinking in responding to
> fear-mongers of the progress science, technology and biotechnology.
>
> VITAL PROGRESS "VP" Summit: The on-line Summit will take place
> February 15 - 29, 2004 on the Internet. Keynote participants will
> author statements, Catalyst Participants will discuss and debate the
> statements as well as author their own comments, and all other
> View-and-Do participants will contribute their ideas in a parallel
> format.  Extropy Institute's goal is to develop a positive approach
> in providing a responsible viewpoint of how progress can succeed with
> critical analysis and careful assessment.
>
> SUMMIT DELIVERABLES: The Vital Progress Summit aims to achieve real,
> practical results.  These will come in stages as the project
> progresses, but early deliverables expected from the February summit
> include a pithy response to the Precautionary Principle, a policy and
> values statement to counter Beyond Therapy, and a comprehensive
> collection of links to pro-advancement groups, journalists,
> publications, and educational groups. We plan to develop school and
> college course materials to be used in bioethics and humanities
> curriculum.
>
> SUMMIT DATES: February 15 - 29th on the Internet at
> http://www.extropy.org REGISTRATION: $15.00 donation toward
> developing deliverables of the VP Summit.
>
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