If you live near Austin, TX, please check out the home page of our yahoo-email notification group Austin_Intelligentsia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Austin_Intelligentsia/?yguid=69174212
Austin Intelligentsia ("AI") is a social network for futurist thinkers, academics, activists, including cybernaughts, transhumanists and other extropians, serious science fiction enthusiasts, life extensionists, including cryonicists, uploaders, singularitarians, Second Lifers and other virtual citizens.
So if you are one of the above--please join, and attend when you can, or what sounds interesting to you...
Regular meetings will be held throughout the year. Information about futurist oriented books to be discussed will be sent out well in advance. Our next meeting in central Austin will include a critical discussion on: "How We Became Posthuman" by Kathryn Hayles, Phd. (Professor of English, University of Southern California).
Please forward the Austin_Intelligentsia link to any friends/family members, on-line communities, co-workers or students you feel would be interested in the notification of live-time meetings by this group. Participation in the group is by no means required--further details on the group can be found on the home page--hope you can make some of the meetings-- Thank You