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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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