Frontier organizations

This is a list of organizations engaged in various things advanced and frontierish.
(This means grand-scale futurism, philosophy, personal and social liberation, and advanced technology).
I am working hard to make it complete.
Note: I also include a few organizations here which are strong or extremist or just interesting enough to know; please do not consider every entry here as my endorsement.
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The best organizations you may want to join

Extropy Institute - the citadel of transhumanist thought.

If you think your life may be worth extending, LEF may give you some advice on the latest life extension research, products and therapies.

World Transhumanist Association

Transhumanist Web Alliance builds websites related to transhumanism.

World Future Society (Greater Boston Chapter) WFS is the largest organization of professional futurists in the world. While not as visionary as Extropy Institute, it is engaged in a number of interesting activities. The Boston Chapter Website has many links of futurist interest.

Edge Foundation - except for the Clock, has some interesting people and projects

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open-Tech Think tank - it doesn't exist yet, but it should...

Foresight Institute conducts research and promotes understanding of perspectives of nanotechnology

Alcor Life Extension Foundation Cryonics is not an easy way to immortality - but it may be the only way you have.

The American Cryonics Society

Alliance for Aging research

The Leri Institute for Much Higher Learning, founded in early 1998, presents the results of its various studies in metaphilosophy, aesthetic mindwarping, and of course, transtemporal experience (among other things)....

The Alchemind society - The international society for cognitive liberty

The Hemlock society - You have a right for a choice in death as well as in life.

Principia Cybernetica More than you can ever learn on cybernetics and related issues - the Website is overwhelming!

Oceania - new country in development. The Institute for Psychohistory

New Paradigms Project - conspiracy theories

HEDG - Hyper-Economy Development Group

Libertarian Party - see also Libertarian Web

Radical view of men as people worthy of respect.

Progressive Life Awareness Network

The Lucidity Institute
Do you know that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill?

Bionomics Institute - Economy as an ecosystem?

Church of Virus

- a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology.

Institute of Memetic Engineering

IETF Home Page Internet Engineering Task Force is an anarchic union of Internet developers.

And there other organizations to explore:

Computers- and technology- related

- incubator for Internet businesses.

Intelligenesis - using AI to predict the market.

MIT and its AI lab

World-Wide Web Consortium

Z Corporation - manufacturer of 3D printers.

Information Society Project Office of the European Commission.

Thinking Machines Corporation

Internet Society

CYC project - consensus commonsense knowledge base

MicroElectronics and Computing Consortium

Xerox PARC

ASP

Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc.

ACM

- [Defense] Advanced Research Projects agency

Agorics, Inc. - computational economies

MERL

Research institutes and foundations

The Santa Fe Insitute

The Corporation for National Research Initiatives

NIH - National Institutes of Health.

Project Mind Foundation

Social and political organizations

Cato Institute

Progress and Freedom Foundation

Transnational radical party

Natural Law Party

HateWatch is a non-profit organization that monitors activities of hate groups on the Internet.

United Nations

CIA The role it plays in the society is worth studying if not supporting.

Moscow Libertarium

NRA (National Rifle Association)

Space Exploration

National Space Society

SETI League - see also SETI at Home

First Millennial Foundation

Artemis Society - building a private Lunar Base.

NASA
The most efficient agency for launching American taxpayers' money into space.

Island One Society - Space exploration

Other

New Civilization Network - great collectiomn of socially responsible groups and references

MENSA Your IQ should be higher than that of 98% of American population. This requirement makes MENSA one of the easiest groups on this list to join. Still, it has a number of interesting activities and interest groups.