[ExI] Coming in 2008: "Transhumanism Today" magazine

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 08:59 PM 1/9/2008, John wrote:

>I believe Max More and the early Extropians put out their own print 
>magazine and despite an excellent product were met with 
>failure.  What you are doing fits into the "where angels fear to 
>tread" category and so I wish you the very best.

That might depend on how one gauges failure.  Did it succeed into the 
21st Century, obtain a ticker number, and produce massive profits on 
Wall Street?  No.  But it was a huge success while it lasted, thanks 
to Max's 24/7 on it.

"Extropy The Journal of Transhumanist Thought" was a success in many 
ways, including financially.  One of the central problems was that 
the magazine's distributors were not always forthcoming with 
payments.  The amount of work, including editing, layout, graphics, 
etc. did not produce a net profit that would be worthy of continuing 
the magazine without a larger number of sponsors and/or benefactors.

For anyone unfamiliar with Extropy, some of the later issues are 
here: http://www.extropy.org/publications.htm

And here are some fun quotes:

"In general I would call it the best periodical I have ever seen in my life..."
-- Alexander Chislenko, August 1992

"I love it. Extropy excites the hell out of my mind."
-- Zack Lynch, January 1993

"I just wanted to let you know that Extropy keeps getting better and 
better! (as, of course, it must in order to be so named). What a 
uniformly excellent, eclectic, thoughtful, well-written selection of 
articles. By far the most thought-provoking, ground-breaking stuff in 
any magazine I read."
-- Phil Goetz, July 1994


One of the highlights of the magazine was seeing it in bookstores and 
magazine stands.

Natasha

<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - University of Plymouth - Faculty 
of Technology
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics
Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the 
circle, then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what 
is inside the circle and everything outside the circle, then that is 
an open system perspective. - Buckminster Fuller
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