[ExI] The Transhumanist Reader: What writing would you include?

[Max More]

Bryan wrote:

>Before I come up with an exhaustive list and damage my fingers beyond repair,

I'd prefer carefully selected to exhaustive... we already have quite 
a few pieces, so a list of hundreds will probably just induce MEGO.

>  I was wondering what the status on the copyrights of the works 
> that you're looking for are? For instance, if it's going to be 
> published by an academic publisher, they will probably want to 
> retain full copyright. On the other hand, if you have convinced 
> them to publish under the Creative Commons or some other liberal 
> license, you may be able to include more works that are of interest 
> (one that comes to mind is excerpts from twobits.net). As you can 
> imagine, the answer to this question will strongly influence what 
> can or cannot be included.

We are definitely looking for pieces that we can freely publish -- 
the publishers are currently quite resist to publishing collections 
requiring multiple payments for rights. Most pieces will be already 
published, so presumably the publisher won't expect to have rights 
over those. As for new pieces, we will have to see.

>I for one would be interested in seeing if we could get some of 
>Kevin Kelly's writings from The Technium included, even if he is 
>trying to spin it off into a book of his own.

Kevin has already offered any posts from Technium that we want to 
include. He told me that only about half of those entries made it 
into his forthcoming book.

Max