- Plausible Futures - http://www.plausiblefutures.com/
List of sites for future scenarios and planning in various fields from economics and management to technology. Includes a newsletter.
- Mind Uploading - http://metalab.unc.edu/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html
"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.
- Space Future - http://www.spacefuture.com/
Space Tourism, space vehicles, and the Space Future Journal.
- Frontier Organizations on the Web - http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/org.html
A major list of futuristic organizations in the areas of future studies, philosophy, personal and social liberation, and advanced technology.
- Transhumanist Resources - http://www.aleph.se/Trans/
An immense, impressive list of sites from science and philosophy to art and entertainment.
- Extropy Institute - http://www.extropy.org/
Probably the largest Transhumanist organization. EI advocates using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve social systems.
- Minds & Machines - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/mm/mmlinks.htm
Links on Artificial Intelligence and other mind-machine interaction.
- The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, Transformation - http://www.maxmore.com/disscont.htm
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 - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s25982.htm
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.
- Transhumanist Art Centre - http://www.extropic-art.com/
The website for the Extropic Art Movement, "insight into the future directions of art and creativity." Managed by artist Natasha Vita-More.
- Life Extension: Looking Into the Next Millennium - http://www.life-enhancement.com/article_template.asp?ID=339
A 1999 article by David Jay Brown. Features Robot Medicine, Extremiphilic Insight, Cryonic Suspension, Naonoprotectants, Heat Shock Proteins, and Naked DNA.
- Revelations of the Future Kind - http://www.jmooneyham.com/futot.html
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."
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