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Mission
The mission of Extropy Institute is to
reduce risks and maximize benefits from rapid and radical
technological change.
Extropy
Institute:
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Acts
as a networking and information center for those seeking to
improve the human future by using technology to extend healthy
life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve
social systems. Develops and disseminates rational, extropic
ethical policies and principles for new technologies and
crucial issues for the future. Helps organizations plan more
effectively for the effects of advanced technologies.
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Performs
this service for its members, businesses, policy institutes,
and other organizations.
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Provides
this service through its website, publications, conferences,
talks, books, online broadcasts, media appearances, consulting
engagements, and educational courses.
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Exists
to help create the best possible future in the face of rapid
and deep technological advances, especially those that may
alter the human condition
In performing its mission, the
following core values should guide the decisions and actions of
Extropy Institute:
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Preserving the qualities and characteristics that have
made Extropy Institute a valued organization.
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Respecting the Principles of Extropy.
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Employing open and transparent policy development that
promote well-informed decisions based on expert advice, and
that ensure that those entitled most affected can assist in
the policy development process.
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Remaining accurate in our FAQ and information provided
to the public.
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Providing the best and most accurate information and
resources to our members, associates and clients.
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Setting a standard by which futurists and transhumanists
can work together.
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Supporting the rights of people worldwide in designing
and developing strategies, scenarios and forecasts for the
future.
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Mission Statement
of Extropy
Institute
The Problem
The pace of change — technological, cultural, and economic — continues
to accelerate and to reach deeper. Uncertainty has become endemic, with
historical certainties now being challenged — including the biological
conditions of human beings and our social structures. The results:
Stress and strain; poor decision-making using methods not well suited to
the changing conditions; political and economic institutions not well
adapted; value systems, philosophical worldviews, and religious beliefs
blind to new possibilities; mistrust, fear, and poor planning for
personal, organizational, and social futures.
The Vision
Advances in technology (including "social technologies" of
knowledge management, learning, and decision-making) are starting to
enable us to change human nature itself in its physical, emotional, and
intellectual aspects. The radical possibilities now emerging could cause
huge problems or could enormously improve the human/transhuman
condition. With better knowledge and decision making, humans could live
far longer in better-than-"perfect" health; improve their
self-knowledge and awareness of interpersonal dynamics; overcome
cultural, psychological, and memetic biases in thinking; enhance
intelligence in all its various forms; and learn to thrive on change and
growth
Our Solutions:
Most of the approaches we take involve:
Exploring
(looking for new ideas and previously unnoticed or undeveloped
connections between them)
Devising (coming up with our own
innovative solutions)
Educating (disseminating the results of exploring
and devising)
Advocating (we commit to remaining open to all
kinds of approaches, yet we are not value-neutral-- we favor human
advancement without apology)
Equipping (developing and assembling and pointing
to methods of all kinds for solving the current fundamental challenges
of existence)
Catalyzing (given limited resources, we will
leverage existing organizations, networks, and knowledge, taking a
highly cooperative approach)
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