Extropy: Journal of Transhumanist Solutions covers the full range of advanced, emerging, and future technologies, and their impact and implications for both the present and the future. Extropy emphasizes finding solutions to problems of the human condition, as well proactively considering potential unwanted side-effects of new technologies. Not all solutions will be fully formed, with some Extropy content aiming to form a clear understanding of the issues.

Some of the issues and technologies covered include:

• Transhumanism and futurist philosophy

• Tools for future planning for individuals and organizations

• Protocols for practical superlongevity

• Superlongevity: science-based projections and planning for potential consequences

• New directions in computation and human-computer interaction

• Generalized cost-benefit consideration of emerging technologies

• Protocols for augmenting your health and intelligence

• Choosing rational values for the present and future

• Critical thinking, effective reasoning and information-filtering

• Understanding and thriving in the innovation economy

• Opportunities and risks in the application of micro- and nanotechnology

• Cultural and artistic means of conveying extropian values and solutions

• Space development and exploration

• Balancing spontaneous order and centralized organization in flexible social structures

• Rational social decision-making

• Self-transformative psychology for optimal functioning

• Megascale engineering

• Artificial intelligence: finding solutions, foreseeing implications

For further information on topics, terms, and concepts which might be unfamiliar, the Definitions page provides links to relevant areas of the Extropy Institute website.

History

Extropy: Vaccine For Future Shock, started by Max More and Prof. Tom Bell (T.0. Morrow), debuted in August 1988 as a printed magazine, with only fifty copies of the first issue. The title became Extropy: Journal of Transhumanist Thought, and a total of seventeen issues were published. Then, in November 1997, it moved to the Web as Extropy Online, where it continued to publish articles for three years. After a year of dormancy, it returned to the Web in February 2002 as its current form, Extropy: Journal of Transhumanist Solutions.

Many articles from Extropy's prior existences are available online, in the Previous Content section. More back-issue material, nearly all of which has never been available online before, will continue to be added.

Praise

If you're tired of shallow, trendy, or uncritical thinking on the technological frontier, Extropy will satisfy, startle, and stimulate you.

"In general I would call it the best periodical I have ever seen in my life..."
-- Alexander Chislenko, August 1992

"I love it. Extropy excites the hell out of my mind."
-- Zack Lynch, January 1993

"I just wanted to let you know that Extropy keeps getting better and better! (as, of course, it must in order to be so named). What a uniformly excellent, eclectic, thoughtful, well-written selection of articles. By far the most thought-provoking, ground-breaking stuff in any magazine I read."
-- Phil Goetz, July 1994