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extropy
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Noun1.extropy - the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe
forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognostication - a statement made about the future
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23) The Extropians have started taking policy issues more seriously, setting up what they call a Progress Action Coalition to "defend high technology" by lobbying government, particularly in the United States.
Stakeholders and technology: challenges for nanotechnology by Einsiedel, Edna F.; McMullen, Greg / Health Law Review
The extropians take self-improvement as far it will go.
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS by ZIGURAS, CHRISTOPHER / Arena Magazine
Of course, techno-optimists, including many of the Wired magazine crowd or so-called Extropians, also make forecasts about the future, but Huber's charge that they are as deterministic as the neo-Malthusians is too strong.
Preservation Instincts by Bailey, Ronald / Reason
 
 
 
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