Re: EI conferences

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 17:10:16 MST


I know these exotic places sound interesting (and they are), but I
would prefer in the future to visit places with pervasive wireless
data capabilities.

Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: Alejandro Dubrovsky <Alejandro.Dubrovsky@isholding.com>
> > > >
> > > > [By the way, in 2010, July 11, there's a total solar eclipse going
> > > > through Easter Island. How's that for a "destination" Extropy
> > > > Institute location?! Count me in on that one.]
> > >
> > > We could plan ahead, if Zyvex pushes up nanotech a bit we might
> > > be able to fly our air cars there ourselves, rather than trying
> > > to book 250 extropians onto a single plane flight (can you even
> > > fly to Easter Island???).
> >
> >Yes, you can. Frequent flights from Chile (Lan Chile airlines). I'm not
> >sure if there would be any place which could hold 250 people comfortably
> >(ok, i was there about 10 years ago, for an hour only, but the bits i saw
> >on
> >the tour trip to the totems and back seemed very poor and backwards, even
> >by
> >south american standards, not very extropic)
>
> What, an Extropian afraid of a few natural elements? An Extropian "Burning
> Man"-type conference under the stars on Easter Island comes pretty darn
> close to my idea of Heaven.
>
> -Zero
>
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