******RAY KURZWEIL KICKS OFF EXTRO-5!!!****** Greetings! We are extremely pleased to announce that Ray Kurzweil, author of _The Age of Spiritual Machines_ and the forthcoming _The Singularity is Near_ will be participating in Extro-5! Ray has gone to great lengths to ensure that we will be able to conduct a 2 & 1/2 hour state-of-the-art videoconference on the afternoon of Friday, June 15th. Ray has agreed to speak for 40 minutes about his forthcoming book. After this, all registrants will have the opportunity to interact with Ray Kurzweil through various means, including a lengthy question and answer session. This videoconference is tentatively scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM PST on Friday, June 15th. For those of you who have registered but cannot arrive by that time, we will soon be creating a method for you to send Ray Kurzweil questions that you would like answered. His responses will be available later in the conference. In addition to the above, KurzweilAI.net will be an official sponsor of Extro-5, and Ray Kurzweil will be providing all of the videoconferencing arrangements and necessary personnel. Ray also plans to have the videoconference taped for broadcast on the above website, as well as for later in the conference itself! So for those of you who have not yet registered for Extro-5, here is one more major reason to do so! To register (and see other confirmed speakers), please go to http://www.extropy.org/ex5/extro5.htm , the official conference website. For any other questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at e_shaun@extropy.org. P.S.: For those who have not yet heard, David Friedman and Ronald Bailey will also be attending Extro-5. Check the above website regularly for updates! ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************