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Futurist, co-founder and chairman of the Extropy Institute.
http://www.maxmore.com/

Interests: how biotechnology will allow us to get rid of suffering in all sentient life (allegedly); animal rights; consciousness; psychopharmacology; and "Why does anything exist?" An attractive, thought-provoking, and many-tentacled site.
http://www.hedweb.com/confile.htm

Economist and polymath; inventor of "Ideas Futures" markets; allegedly open-minded and politically undogmatic. His homepage is immodest(?) and says much about him, not necessarily bad things.
http://hanson.gmu.edu/

Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute, author of "Friendly AI" and "Staring into the Singularity". His Web complex, "The Low Beyond", contains professional and personal writings.
http://yudkowsky.net/beyond.html

Transhumanist and technology advocate. Incorporates the former Transhumanist Unitarian Universalist Network.
http://www.johnkdavis.com/

Mathematician and originator of the "Omega Point" theory that the universe is finite, and therefore ultimately controllable in its entirety by sentients.
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/

Personal site of João Pedro de Magalhães, researcher of human aging, with several essays about transhumanism, human nature, and the ethics of new technologies.
http://author.senescence.info/

Marc Geddes, writer of science fiction, fantasy, and libertarian-transhumanist philosophy.
http://www.prometheuscrack.com/

Founder and director of the Transhumanist Arts & Culture World Center, president of the Extropy Institute.
http://www.natasha.cc/

Essays and press appearances from the computer programmer, transhumanist, and extropian.
http://www.fqa.com/romana/

Essays from the Dutch musician about transhumanism, space exploration, and political philosophy.
http://www.georgeovermeire.nl/indexe.html

Extropian and Buddhist; coauthor of the Extropian FAQ. His vast array of transhumanist and anarchocapitalist interests makes him one of the archetypal Extropians.
http://www.idiom.com/~arkuat/arkuat/