from the ensuring-friendly-super-intelligence dept.
The February Extropy Institute Newsletter announced that Extro-5: Shaping Things to Come "will take place from June 15th to 17th at the San Jose Hilton and Towers in San Jose, California." It is intended to be a "solution-oriented conference" with extensive participation aiming "to come to useful, actionable conclusions." Themes are:
- Machine Intelligence-Threat or Opportunity?
- Thriving in the Information Economy
- Superlongevity and Augmentation: Overcoming Resistance
- Mastering the Information Explosion
"TransVision 2001 will take place one week after Extro-5, from June 22nd to 24th, 2001 in Berlin, Germany."