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<td bgcolor="#CC6633" colspan="2" align="left"><font face="Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif" size="5" color="#000000">Extropy Institute Newsletter - Vital Progress Summit</font></td>
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Preliminary reading list; links to updated Web pages on the VP Summit
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<li style="color:#000000"><a href="#feature" style="color:#000000"><b>Why Get Involved in the VP Summit?</b></a>
<li style="color:#000000"><a href="#article1" style="color:#000000">Preliminary Reading List</a>
<li style="color:#000000"><a href="#article2" style="color:#000000">Keynote Ronald Bailey's article - a must read!</a>
<li style="color:#000000"><a href="#article4" style="color:#000000">Who are the VP Summit Catalysts and Associate Producers?</a>
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You, our members, have told us that you want to get
involved. You want to do something meaningful. Now
is your chance!<p>
The <STRONG>VP Summit</STRONG> boils down to 2
substantial issues: Freedom and Choice. We need to
protect our freedom and our choices for our future.<p>
What type of assurance do we have that, if and when
we need good medicine to save our lives, or prolong
our lives, the scientific and biotechnological
advances will be available to us?<p>
We need to plan ahead - to start now making sure
that we do have an "assurance policy" for our future.<p>
<p><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6uifvyn6.rmatvyn6.d8kopyn6.yb4rxun6.2058&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.extropy.org%2Fsummitabout.htm">Read about the VP Summit here ...</A>
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<b>Greetings!</b>
<p>The Vital Progress Summit is taking shape. In order to
get you warmed up for the Summit, we are including a
preliminary reading list for your convenience.
<p>Soaking up some relevant information will enrich your
participation in the Summit and will help us all
approach the topic from a well-informed perspective.
We have hunted down a wide range of writings on
Summit themes. Here we offer a few directly relevant
and substantial references to give you an excellent
starting point to tackle the theme of the Summit.<p>
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<b>Preliminary Reading List</b>
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These essays take widely varying viewpoints on the
issues addressed by the VP Summit. Best's article is
from the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Kass and
Hurlbut's essays come from a publication deeply
opposed to what we stand for, and Kazman's piece
addresses the Precautionary Principle from a far more
technology-friendly point of view. <P>
<STRONG>Bioethics: <BR>
Reassuring a Not-So-Brave New World</STRONG>
<BR>by Simon G. Best <BR>
http://www.bio.org/features/20040121.asp?p=yes
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Simon G. Best is CEO of Ardana Bioscience Ltd. and
chairman of BIO's Bioethics Committee<p>
<STRONG>Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls: Biotechnology
and the
Pursuit of Perfection</STRONG> <BR>
Leon R. Kass <BR>
<I>The New Atlantis</I>
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/1/kassprint.htm<p>
<STRONG>From Biology to Biography</STRONG><BR>
William Hurlbut
<BR><I>The New Atlantis</I> <BR>
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/3/hurlbutprint.h
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<STRONG>Better Never? </STRONG><BR>
By Sam Kazman<BR>
The Objectivist Center, 12.01.2003 <BR>
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/skazman_bett
er-never.asp
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The Precautionary Principle is the idea that society
should permit no new technologies to be developed
without the certainty that they will cause no
environmental harm. But to stop technologies in their
infancy may well mean stopping them dead. And given
that so much of human survival and flourishing depends
on new technologies, stopping technology means
curtailing civilization.<p>
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<p><b>Keynote Ronald Bailey's article - a must read!</b>
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<STRONG>Loving Death: Early death, disease,
disability: pro or con?</STRONG> <BR>
By Ronald Bailey <BR>
Reason, February 26, 2003 <BR>
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb022603.shtml<p>
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<p><b>Who are the VP Summit Catalysts and Associate Producers?</b>
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In our next newsletter, scheduled for this coming
weekend, we will announce the Summit Catalysts and
Associate Producers.<p>
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