From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 01:26:33 MDT
Seems against the trend of moving from hardcopy to softcopy. But I think you
have a point in that paper is still more user-friendly. One more possibility
too: a magazine that can be downloaded and played on a new generation
ebook-magazine reader (e.g. zinio.com as in the softcopy Technology Review
of MIT). My prevision is that with the advant of tablet PCs ebooks-magazines
will really take off.
> Estropico: I have long thought that the "movement" needs a *print*
magazine, both as a
> focus and as an outreach tool. Me and a few of others that have met
through
> ExtroBritannia (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia) in London
are
> now seriously thinking of going ahead with a project in this direction.
There would be some copyright agreement to make but I guess that if the
magazine is non-profit most or all sources below would agree. I think to be
used as an outreach tool the magazine should contain not only transhumanist
papers, but also other items of general interest.
> The idea is to put together the best articles published by a wide range of
> websites, organisations and individuals, such as KurzweilAI.net (which is
> the inspiration and would-be model for the magazine), Extropy, Foresight
> Institute, IMM, Nanodot, Nanogirl News, Transhumanity, Singularity
Institute,
> Alcor, Cryonics Institute, American Cryonics Society, Sandberg's website,
> Periastron, LEF, etc, etc, etc.
Good point. Perhaps a joint magazine would help consolidating the
transhumanist movement, which in my opinion suffers from excessive
fragmentation.
> I doubt that such a magazine could succeed if owned/run by any single
> transhumanist group, because it could be perceived as partisan by
> transhumanists and as cultish by the general public and because it could
> rapidly run out of quality material to publish.
I think all three assumptions are reasonable.
> The idea rests on three assumptions:
> 1.There is a market out there for such a magazine (I realise that an
initial
> circulation of a very few hundreds would be a success)
> 2. People are willing to pay for a magazine mostly made up (at least at
the
> beginning) of articles freely available on the web
> 3. The above-mentioned organisations are willing to offer their material
for
> free (their only gain being the publicity)
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