I intend to have cryonics room parties and we hope to have some cryonics-related panels. I encourage those who would be interested in attending to have no fear of our fair city.

It is inevitable that virulent viral epidemics-- whether of natural origin or engineered by terrorists -- will recur and spread quickly in this world of accelerating personal mobility.

I believe that Toronto will be one of the safest cities in North America as a result of our experience -- a physical infection has produced some powerful cultural antibodies. The Toronto airport has a thermal detector now. Consciousness of the risks of infection and how to minimize them are much higher than in other cities.

And another thing about Toronto:

We have Christine Gaspar.

Ben Best

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June 27-29, 2003

Yale University, New Haven, CT USA

What will the body be like in 50 years? How will changes to our bodies change our lived experience? How will we adapt the body to our needs and to the environments in which we live? Will we have conquered sickness, aging and death for all or only for the lucky few?

Will people migrate to silicon, build superbodies, or both, or neither? This conference, the first Transvision conference to be sponsored by the World Transhumanist Association in North America, will explore the future of the body from the transhumanist perspective. TV03USA is co-sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program's Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism.

Transhumanism advocates the individual's right to use technology to enhance the body. This conference will begin the discussion between the transhumanist movement and the communities with which transhumanists have rarely been in dialogue: professional bioethicists, anti-technology activists, disability and transgender activists, and critical social theorists of science and technology.

The Society for Venturism is an organization dedicated to the advancing of immortalist philosophy and ideals throughout the world by being actively engaged in doing real world things. We will include all cryonicists and cryonics groups within our membership. In fact, bringing all these different organizations and people together is one of our primary goals. David Pizer, our founder, is a former Vice President of ALCOR, and yet he made a point of including both Cryonics Institute (Robert Ettinger) and ALCOR (Dr. Lemler) people on our board of directors.

The Venturist website is: www.venturist.org (www.creeksidepreserve.com is the moneymaking seed which will be the prelude to Ventureville, I am the General Manager)

John Grigg

It is time for all people who wish to live in a better world, which readily accepts life extension research and cryonics to band together and work to make this a concrete reality. The Society for Venturism is raising up its banners to share with the world our exciting message; aiming for the achievement of physical immortality. Our initial plans are to help our members be interviewed in the mass media, develop a major new magazine, and to have the membership advantage of sharing our beliefs from the forum of an organization that does not profit when someone gets suspended.

We will do the first aim by engaging radio and TV talk shows and offer up Venturist members to be interviewed - long and often. We hope to flood the talk shows and news shows with interviews of reasonable Venturist members who are willing to persuade others to "take the venture to the future." If you remember, we chose the word "Venturist" because a "venture" is an adventure with some risk. That is what cryonics is about.

We will spread the cryonics message by building the Venturist Magazine into a publication that can be sold in news stands and will be attractive and informative. Starting with the July 1st issue the Venturist magazine will come out every month.

Our unique organization lets others do suspensions and storage, while we concentrate on getting our message out to the world. This is so there is no perceived financial gain for us as cryonics grows. The benefits of our work will go to others.

So far we have discussed building the membership, doing radio and TV talk shows, and building the magazine and trying to get it up to standards where it can be sold in news stands. After we have progressed in this direction we can implement other benefits to immortalists like: Personal trusts to take it ($) with you; a back-up rescue option in case the patient's primary storage company gets in trouble; meetings and seminars here at the Creekside Preserve.

And in time Ventureville, our cryonics community planned for development in Mayer, will become a reality as our numbers grow. This will not happen overnight, but in time we will have houses, apartments and a lodge center to be a beacon to cryonicists everywhere who want to gather together to work on Venturist goals and also to look after each other.

People who use reason to seek their own advantage and do so without harming others, and in fact help others in the process are the most noble and honorable. And that is what you will be doing with other fine people when you join the society for Venturism. Each time the Venturists help motivate another person to sign up for cryonics, the existing cryonics population is strengthened by adding more members and the new person is helped by having the personal protection of being signed up for cryonics. Therefore, every time you help someone else through cryonics you are also helping those who are already signed up and those who are already in suspension. Working to increase membership in the cryonics movement is truly a win-win situation.

By becoming a member you will be taking part in a great undertaking which will change for the better the world we live in. Come embark on the adventure!

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