- Extropy Institute
Probably the largest Transhumanist organization. EI advocates using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve social systems.
- EXTROPY Online
Published by Extropy Institute, Extropy Online publishes essays, news, and reviews of materials on advanced topics of futurist interest, from life extension to social activism to radical new technologies.
- Frontier Organizations on the Web
A major list of futuristic organizations in the areas of future studies, philosophy, personal and social liberation, and advanced technology.
- Henry's Futures Pages
By Henry Klutymans, a Dutch futurist. Includes sections on nanotechnology, cryonics, space travel, transhumanism, and other future topics. The page is also available in Dutch.
- Life Extension: Looking Into the Next Millennium
A 1999 article by David Jay Brown. Features Robot Medicine, Extremiphilic Insight, Cryonic Suspension, Naonoprotectants, Heat Shock Proteins, and Naked DNA.
- Metamorphosis Society
A philosophical society of people wishing to discuss physical changes to humans in the future. Supports cryonics as a means to that end. Based in Japan, but looking for members worldwide.
- Mind Uploading
"Uploading" is the putative future process of copying one's mind from the natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans.
- Minds & Machines
Links on Artificial Intelligence and other mind-machine interaction.
- Plausible Futures
List of sites for future scenarios and planning in various fields from economics and management to technology. Includes a newsletter.
- Revelations of the Future Kind
An index to web pages and other speculation about the future, both scientific and science fiction. Dozens of topics from cryonics and nanotechnology to catastrophism, A.I., SETI, and space travel. Also contains J.R. Mooneyham's "Speculative Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change."
- Space Future
Space Tourism, space vehicles, and the Space Future Journal.
- The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, Transformation
Text of Max More's 1995 Ph.D thesis in Philosophy. More looks for a new understanding of personal identity and examines how that understanding may change the definition of death. It's rather heavy reading.
- The First Immortal Generation
Writer Damien Broderick talks about the futuristic possibility of the end of death as we know it. Transcript of a radio interview on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Ockham's Razor," broadcast May 23, 1999.
- The Life Extension Foundation
Sells supplements and funds/reports on research in life extension and methods to slow and reverse human aging.
- Transhumanist Art Centre
The website for the Extropic Art Movement, "insight into the future directions of art and creativity." Managed by artist Natasha Vita-More.
- Transhumanist Resources
An immense, impressive list of sites from science and philosophy to art and entertainment.
- Web Links to Technology Growth Companies
Web links to public companies whose stock is likely to rise substantially over the coming decades, including companies involved in life extension technologies. Plus a list of new nanotechnology companies. Put together as a type of "future prediction" by John De Rivaz of the UK.
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