I want to note that I didn't actually coin "extropy". It was my co-editor of <i>Extropy </i>magazine, T.O. Morrow.<br><br>--Max<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:07 AM, James Clement <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clementlawyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">clementlawyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:0.9rem"><h1 style="font-family:MuseoSlab500Regular;font-weight:normal;margin:0.5rem;line-height:37px">The transhumanity timeline</h1><div style="font-size:0.9rem;color:rgb(119,119,119)">
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013, 18:32 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA</div></div><div style="font-size:0.9rem"><div style="font-size:0.9rem;float:left;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:0.5em;margin-right:0.5em"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/joanna-lobo" style="color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Joanna Lobo</a> <br>
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A chronological list of how transhumanity has evolved over the years.</p></div></div></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:MuseoSlab500Regular,helvetica,arial;line-height:20px"><div style="font-size:0.9rem;border:0px dotted blue;float:left;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0px;padding:0px 6.84375px;width:1024.84375px">
<div style="font-size:0.9rem"><p><b>1927: </b>Julian Huxley, a biologist, coined the term for what he hoped would be a new age of enlightenment: "transhumanism--man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realising new possibilities of and for his human nature." <br>
<br><b>1962: </b>Robert Ettinger, a World War II veteran who became a physics professor, published The Prospect of Immortality. He devised America's first science experiment with immortality: cryonics. In 1972 he wrote that instead of relying on cryonics to revive the dead, forthcoming technologies might make death obsolete.<br>
<br><b>1980's:</b> An Englishman named Max O'Connor/ More coined the term extropy which was the tendency for things to speed up. He founded the Extropy Institute.</p><p><b>1990:</b> He wrote an essay titled Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy and a journal Extropy: The journal of Transhumanist Thought. Soon after, his Extropians began calling themselves transhumanists. The institute shut down in later years but tranhumanism kept mutating. <br>
<br><b>Today:</b> There is the World Transhumanist Association (now called Humanity+), the Foresight Nanotech Institute in Menlo Park, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Methuselah Foundation that works to extend biological life, the Immortality Institute advocates for indefinite life extension technologies, the Lifeboat Foundation works to alert the public about existential risks, the Institute for Ethics and emerging Technologies, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Besides, several countries have their own associations.</p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Max More, PhD</div><div>Strategic Philosopher</div><div>Co-editor, <i>The Transhumanist Reader</i></div><div>Kindle available now:<br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Transhumanist-Reader-Contemporary-ebook/dp/B00BQZK6MU/ref=tmm_kin_title_0" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Transhumanist-Reader-Contemporary-ebook/dp/B00BQZK6MU/ref=tmm_kin_title_0</a><br>
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