Editing Extropianism (section)

== Extropy Institute<!--'Extropy Institute' redirects here--> ==
In 1986, More joined [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation|Alcor]], a [[cryonics]] company, and helped establish (along with Michael Price, Garret Smyth and Luigi Warren) the first European cryonics organization, Mizar Limited (later Alcor UK).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Alcor Team|url=http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetalcorstaff.html|access-date=26 May 2016}}</ref> In 1987, More moved to Los Angeles from [[Oxford University]] in England to work on his Ph.D. in philosophy at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1988, ''Extropy: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought'' was first published. (For the first few issues, it was "Extropy: Vaccine for Future Shock".) This brought together thinkers with interests in [[artificial intelligence]], [[nanotechnology]], [[genetic engineering]], [[life extension]], [[mind transfer|mind uploading]], [[idea futures]], [[robotics]], [[space exploration]], [[memetics]], and the politics and economics of [[transhumanism]]. Alternative media organizations soon began reviewing the magazine, and it attracted interest from like-minded thinkers.  Later, More and Tom Bell co-founded the '''Extropy Institute'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> ('''ExI'''), a [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]] [[501(c)(3)]] educational organization.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 5, 1996 |title=Extropianism |url=https://www.mit.edu/people/jpbonsen/extropianism.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.mit.edu}}</ref> The institute was formed as a transhumanist networking and information center to use current scientific understanding along with critical and creative thinking to define a small set of principles or values that could help make sense of new capabilities opening up to humanity.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

In 2006, the board of directors of the Extropy Institute made a decision to close the organisation, stating that its mission was "essentially completed."<ref name="Extropy Institute 2006">{{cite web| publisher = Extropy Institute | title = Next Steps| year = 2006| url = http://www.extropy.org/future.htm| access-date = 2006-05-05| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110225075011/http://www.extropy.org/future.htm| archive-date = 2011-02-25| url-status = dead}}</ref>