extropian

alternative Extropian

1. Of, or relating to extropy.

   While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the ‘infobahn’, cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the ‘post-human’ philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult.

   1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021

plural extropians · alternative Extropian

1. An adherent or advocate of, or an activist for, extropy or extropianism and its goals or principles.

   Though [Chris Hables Gray] does go out of his way to remind the reader that nearly all of us are bio-enhanced (that is a vaccination scar, isn’t it?), he’s neither a chrome-eyed Extropian nor a Rifkinesque fear-mongerer.

   2001?, Rob Lightner, Amazon review of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age by Chris Hables Gray

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   The Extropian movement has an active Web presence. Here is one statement on “What Is an Extropian”: Extropians seek to use technology intelligently to overcome genetic, biological, psychological, cultural, and neurological limits to the pursuit of life, liberty, and boundless achievement. An extropian is an optimist, a neophile, an explorer […]

   2002, Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 155

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of extropian.

   After pouring through my boyfriend's science fiction collection and reading the Extropian listserv, I was enthralled by the transhumanist vision of a technotopia on Earth.

   2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 14

plural Extropians

1. Alternative letter-case form of extropian.