It's these sort of ideas that crop up in the Extropian magazine, which
covers things like the physics of immortality, time travel, and
"traversable wormholes and intersellar travel". Chief among the
thinkers is Robin Hanson. Flicking through Robin's
thoughts on speeding up the development of
human thought by borrowing tricks from the stock market and creating
an ideas futures market, reading his theories on what would happen if
uploading human consciousness became a reality, you start to feel the
ground shifting beneath you . But Extropians like Robin never
look down. Down isn't an Extropian direction.
(
"The Tommorow People", UK Observer, 26Mar95 )