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		<title>Extropy +11: When Civilizations Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, July 26, 2010 (FROM THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG &#8211;&#62; here.) The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation A new model shows how the spread of ET civilisations can undergo phase changes, providing deeper insights into the Fermi Paradox In 1950, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi raised the question that now bears his name. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +10: The Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words of Max More are too well composed, too precise to emulate, so I have decided to provide a simple introduction and then let the rest speak for itself. The original, The Extropian Principles 3.o, is also to be found here on Max More&#8217;s own site. Introduction The term &#8216;transhumanist&#8217; comes with significant baggage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan&#8217;s Profound Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A letter from RDO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Divided Peoples of Our Human Galaxy, Two hundred centuries. For two hundred centuries you have tried to get it right. You swore me off. You would be fine by yourselves, you said. But now you must realize it as Trevize has that there are things you just cannot do on your own. And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s help germinate this seed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An epic story about meeting god on a train. Written by Harry Stottle @ fullmoon.nu Talking to God I met god the other day. I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +8: Room to Expand</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropypluseight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Part and parcel of the what leads many to an Extropian mindset is the realization of scale, both in space and time. We’re allotted seventy to a hundred years of life compared to a fantastically large number of years that the Universe has been in existence. We live on a tiny little planet in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 9%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Am I part of the cure, or am I part of the disease?&#8221; Don&#8217;t Fear the Singularity By Ran Prieur, 2005 &#8220;The Singularity&#8221; is the biggest idea in techno-utopianism. The word is derived from black hole science &#8212; it&#8217;s the point at the core where matter has contracted to zero volume and infinite density, beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221; FUTURE-WISE As we saw in Minus One, the future can be a very shocking proposition when it is extrapolated far out enough. But we all have to deal with the day-to-day just like anyone else. This, I believe, is why stuff like the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much info and too many wild concepts to consider. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8212; To be able to hold this all in one&#8217;s mind without panic, or blind faith, or manic passion, to be able recognize the likelihood and probability of these progressively stranger concepts without a significant rise in blood-pressure; that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +3: Growing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Laws of Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With increasingly subtle moves, the players in Asimov&#8217;s epic Foundation and Earth are confronted with the daunting decision of whether to initiate an all-encompassing ethical framework, one which just might direct humanity into an acceptable future. The agents of change go unnamed for those who have yet to read it. Dr. Isaac Asimov, in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself as a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature. — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glorious Dawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Nöosphere? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin described it as &#8216;a collective consciousness created by the deepening interaction of human minds&#8217;. In other words, it is a hive mind, one which we can say is developing through the internet and connectivity-enhancing technologies. This is not new news, but where it may take us is [...]]]></description>
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