From: Heywood Floyd <anon081@yahoo.com>
>Wow, the secret is out! Its not virtuality, its viruality! Gosh,
>where have I been!
I have no idea wear you have been, but I've been looking up all those people who apparently don't want you to find them:
>If I'm wrong about such a secret network, then explain to me why these
>most thoughtful and intelligent people are mysteriously quite these
>days. Are we to believe they have all given up discussing
>transhumanist values openly on the internet?
>
As I recall, back in '96 Russel Whitaker (or somebody) listed some of these
as "possible extropians":
>Max More
Just checked in to the extropian list a few days ago.
>Ralph Merkle
www.merkle.com
>E. Shaun Russell
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/russel.html
http://www.asiapac.com/People/interesting-people.html
>Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@pobox.com>
http://www.idiom.com/~arkuat/
>Vernor Vinge
he's working on a new book:
http://www.tor.com/sampleDeepness.html
>Hans Moravec
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/
Still minding the children:
>From outside the university, my phone number is (412) 268-3829.
You can leave fax messages at my home at (412) 363-9834.
>Tom Morrow
Likes to climb Mt. Shasta (60 miles from here)
and yes, he does meditate.
http://www.concentric.net/~tmorrow/
>Mark Crosby crosby_m@rocketmail.com
Crosby_M@bls.gov
mark@unicorn.com
>Mark Mills
He's designing web pages:
http://www.mounet.com/~jmmills/
>Kieth Henson
He's busy suing the Scientologists (go get 'em!)
http://www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/henson/home.html
>Gregory Stock
The Metaman is writing articles and organizing conferences
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/gregory.html
>Kathryn Aegis aegis@igc.apc.org
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/sarah.marr/katmain.html
>Kennita Watson
Very busy, owns a business
http://members.home.net/kwatson1/
>Mitchell Porter mitch@thehub.com.au
minimalist:
http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch/welcome.html
>Peter C. McCluskey
lives in Mountain View, not far from here
http://www.rahul.net/pcm/pcm.html
>Reilly Jones
70544.1227@CompuServe.COM
>Russell Whitaker
http://www.alphablox.com/index1.html
>Sarah Marr
working on her web pages:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/sarah.marr/
>Perry E. Metzger
perry@piermont.com
>Where are these people? Eat your heart out! :-)
Have you dropped a line to any of these folks? At least they haven't gone "anonymous".
--J. R.
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/virtropy