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- adjective of, or relating to
extropy
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Examples
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Population One considers it to be phatic extropian fiction.
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I prefer to refer to myself according to the things I believe in, humanist, rationalist, naturalist, Unitarian Universalist, extropian rather than the things I don't believe in.
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So far, the list includes the likes of extropian Natasha Vita-More, astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi, artist Stelarc, USA National Memory Champion Tatiana Cooley, and our own Xeni Jardin!
Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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One of the favorite tropes of both science fiction and extropian speculations about the future is the idea of uploading human consciousness into a computer.
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One of the favorite tropes of both science fiction and extropian speculations about the future is the idea of uploading human consciousness into a computer.
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An extropian company called "Applied Molecular Evolution" have shipped a designer molecule that neutralizes cocaine in the bloodstream.
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Charlie is a king-hell extropian, post-Singularity skiffy writer.
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It's not at all clear to me that the extropian concepts inherent in the story are really part of the common memes of science fiction just yet; I think Doctorow and Stross are changing that with this and other similar stories.
Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002
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The story of how Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter is legend, and it says a lot about the differences between the cyberpunk ethos and the extropian ethos.
Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002
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This is some powerful extropian singularity stuff, right here.
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