Way back in 1988, before the future was fashionable, Max co-founded the original transhumanist magazine, Extropy: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought. In the early 90s he founded Extropy Institute, organized five Extro conferences—the first explicitly transhumanist conferences, and founded the English cryonics organization Alcor-UK (originally Mizar).
But his greatest achievements are perhaps on the intellectual rather than organizational side. Max has authored a host of seminal transhumanist essays, forming a key part of the foundation of modern transhumanist thougt, including “Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy” (1990), “The Principles of Extropy”, “A Letter to Mother Nature: Amendments to the Human Constitution” (1999), “Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy” (1993), “Dynamic Optimism: An Extropian Cognitive-Emotional Virtue” (1992), and more recent papers such as “True Transhumanism”"
But his greatest achievements are perhaps on the intellectual rather than organizational side. Max has authored a host of seminal transhumanist essays, forming a key part of the foundation of modern transhumanist thougt, including “Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy” (1990), “The Principles of Extropy”, “A Letter to Mother Nature: Amendments to the Human Constitution” (1999), “Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy” (1993), “Dynamic Optimism: An Extropian Cognitive-Emotional Virtue” (1992), and more recent papers such as “True Transhumanism”"
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