EXTROPY_

The Journal of Transhumanist Thought — complete archive, OCR'd and searchable

Between 1988 and 1996, Extropy published ideas that are still arriving: digital cash and cryptocurrency, prediction markets, smart contracts, nanotechnology, uploading, life extension, polycentric law. Seventeen issues edited by Max More and Tom W. Bell, digitized and transcribed so you can read, cite, and search them.

17 issues 190 articles 799 scanned pages 1988–1996
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EXTROPY #10 · Winter/Spring 1993

Pigs in Cyberspace

by Hans Moravec

Exploration and colonization of the universe awaits, but earth-adapted biological humans are ill-equipped to respond to the challenge. Machines have gone farther and seen more, limited though they presently are by insect-like behavioral inflexibility. As they become smarter over the coming decades, space will be…

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