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educational organization. "ExI" was formed as a transhumanist networking and information center to use current scientific understanding along with critical and creative thinking to define a small set of principles or values that could help make sense of new capabilities opening up to humanity.
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company, and helped establish (along with Michael Price, Garret Smyth and Luigi Warren) the first European cryonics organization, Mizar Limited (later Alcor UK). In 1987, More moved to Los Angeles from
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In 2006, the board of directors of the Extropy Institute made a decision to close the organisation, stating that its mission was "essentially completed."
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was first published. (For the first few issues, it was "Extropy: Vaccine for Future Shock".) This brought together thinkers with interests in
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Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Cybernetics & Systems: "Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems", pg. 258 (1978)
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in 1983 was the first to use the term "extropy" to signify a potential transhuman destiny for humanity. Also published in 1983 was
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which used the term "extropic" as a type of scale in visual music. 'Extropy' as coined by Tom Bell (T.O. Morrow) and defined by
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Stance favoring continuous technological evolution and longer lifespans
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and the like. Many extropians foresee the eventual realization of
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in 1988, is "the extent of a living or organizational system's
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Originated by a set of principles developed by the philosopher
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in England to work on his Ph.D. in philosophy at the
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