Frontier organizations
This is a list of organizations engaged in various
things advanced and frontierish.
(This means grand-scale futurism, philosophy, personal
and social liberation, and advanced technology).
I am working hard to make it complete.
Note: I also include a few organizations here which are
strong or extremist or just interesting enough to know; please do not
consider every entry here as my endorsement.
The best organizations you may want to join
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Extropy Institute - the citadel of transhumanist thought.
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If you think your life may be worth extending, LEF may give you some advice on
the latest life extension research, products and therapies.
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World Transhumanist Association
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Transhumanist Web Alliance builds websites
related to transhumanism.
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World Future Society
(Greater Boston Chapter) WFS is the largest organization of professional
futurists in the world. While not as visionary as Extropy Institute, it is
engaged in a number of interesting activities. The Boston Chapter Website
has many links of futurist interest.
- Edge Foundation - except for the Clock, has some interesting people and projects
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Open-Tech Think tank - it doesn't exist yet, but it should...
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Foresight Institute conducts research and promotes understanding
of perspectives of nanotechnology
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Alcor Life Extension Foundation Cryonics is not an easy way to
immortality - but it may be the only way you have.
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The American Cryonics Society
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Alliance for Aging research
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The Leri Institute for Much Higher Learning, founded in early 1998,
presents the results of its various studies in metaphilosophy, aesthetic
mindwarping, and of course, transtemporal experience (among other
things)....
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The Alchemind society
- The international society for cognitive liberty
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The Hemlock society
- You have a right for a choice in death as well as in life.
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Principia Cybernetica More than you can ever learn on cybernetics and
related issues - the Website is overwhelming!
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Oceania - new country in development.
The Institute for Psychohistory
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New Paradigms Project - conspiracy theories
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HEDG - Hyper-Economy Development Group
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- Libertarian Party
- see also
Libertarian Web
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Radical view of men as people worthy of respect.
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Progressive Life Awareness Network
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The Lucidity Institute
Do you know that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill?
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Bionomics Institute - Economy as an ecosystem?
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Church of Virus
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a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science
and technology.
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Institute of Memetic Engineering
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IETF Home Page Internet Engineering Task Force is
an anarchic union of Internet developers.
And there other organizations to explore:
Computers- and technology- related
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- incubator for Internet businesses.
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Intelligenesis - using AI to predict the market.
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MIT and its
AI lab
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World-Wide Web Consortium
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Z Corporation - manufacturer of 3D printers.
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Information Society Project Office of the European Commission.
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Thinking Machines Corporation
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Internet Society
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CYC project - consensus commonsense knowledge base
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MicroElectronics and Computing Consortium
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Xerox PARC
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ASP
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Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc.
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ACM
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- [Defense] Advanced Research Projects agency
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Agorics, Inc. - computational economies
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MERL
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Research institutes and foundations
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The Santa Fe Insitute
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The Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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NIH - National Institutes of Health.
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Project Mind Foundation
Social and political organizations
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Cato Institute
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Progress and Freedom Foundation
- Transnational radical party
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Natural Law Party
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HateWatch is a non-profit organization that monitors activities of hate groups on the Internet.
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United Nations
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CIA The role it plays in the society is worth studying
if not supporting.
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Moscow Libertarium
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NRA (National Rifle Association)
Space Exploration
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National Space Society
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SETI League - see also SETI at Home
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First Millennial Foundation
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Artemis Society - building a private Lunar Base.
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NASA
The most efficient agency for launching American taxpayers'
money into space.
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Island One Society - Space exploration
Other
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New Civilization Network - great collectiomn of socially responsible groups and references
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MENSA Your IQ should be higher than that of 98% of American population.
This requirement makes MENSA one of the easiest groups on this list to join.
Still, it has a number of interesting activities and interest groups.
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Global Business Network
An interesting dual formation of a business and a think tank.
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Club of Rome
- SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape
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VoyagerCo
They compress more ideas into their CD-ROMs than any other
publisher - and manage to stay in business.
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Society for Amateur Scientists
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Information Networking Insitute
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The Klingon Language Institute
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Libertarian Futurist Society
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- First Internet bank
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Realist Wonder Society
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International Society for General Semantics
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The CSICOP/Skeptical Inquirer
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Synergy Solutions Network
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Montague Institute
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Temple of Inner light - Psychedelic church.
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has many links to other interesting organizations
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