Editorial

Though this is EXTROPY’s winter issue, it comes to you in Mid-January because, being graduate students in philosophy, we co-editors must work around our school’s class schedule. Rest assured that you will recieve four issues in a year’s time, however. Expect your next EXTROPY in about two months - at the end of our spring break.

Please indulge your urges to send us material on any extropian topic. We welcome articles on the following subjects, among others: Artificial intelligence, cognitive science and neuroscience advances and possibilities, intelligence increase technologies, life extension, cryonics and biostasis, nanotechnology, hypermedia, spontaneous orders, space colonization, libertarian economics and politics, reviews of science fiction, intelligent use of psychochemicals, extropian self-improvement psychology, mind-fucking and wierdness, extropic moral and amoral theories, exciting developments in science and technology, memetics, and aesthetics.

In the next few issues there will be articles on: New perspectives on handling friendships and romantic relationships (look for an explanation of SEXTROPY!), with alternatives to conventional marriage; the intelligent use of LSD-25 and THC delta-9 (marijuana) for pleasure and self-improvement; an overview of cyberpunk science fiction; new theories of personal identity and survival; a materialist explanation of the phenomenon of consciousness; and currently available means of boosting your memory and learning abilities.

Extropy is edited and published by Tom W. Bell and Max T. O’Connor. Please send articles and letters for publication to:

T. Bell/M. O’Connor
1129 W. 30th St., #8,
Los Angeles, CA 90007.

If we print your article you will receive a complimentary copy or will have your subscription extended by one issue.

Extropy is published four times per year. Subscriptions are $6/yr, or $10/yr for foreign subscriptions. Please make checks payable to Tom Bell or Max O’Connor.

EXTROPY

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