Transhumanistiska Föreningen Aleph -
The Aleph Transhumanist Association

Aleph was founded in 1996 by the members of the Omega mailing list,
a local swedish transhumanist mailing list active since 1995. 
The goal was to create an organization able to actively interact
with the rest of society, representing transhuman views and raising
interest for transhumanism. 

At present Aleph still remains a fairly small and tightly knit
association, with 20-30 members mainly in the Stockholm area. 
Its main activities the past year has consisted of developing
a website (www.aleph.se), the Aleph Handbook, holding lectures 
about fields related to transhumanism, two weekend seminars 
about scenario planning and regular dinners. 

Current Board

Chairman:	Anders Sandberg
Vice Chairman: 	Robert Ingdahl
Treasurer:	Felix Ungman
Secretary: 	Reine Bergström
Members: 	Robert Söderberg and Ulf Holmlund 
Supplementary member: Tobias Öbrink 

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Scenario Planning

At the scenario planning seminars scenarios about the near
term (10-20 year) future were developed and discussed. The result
was five scenarios, four exploring how well society can adapt to
fast technological growth and the amount of governmental/social
influence over the development of technology, and one disaster
scenario where the world economy breaks down. The long term
plans are to turn the scenarios into articles or possibly
a website.

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The Aleph Handbook

There is a notable need for clear, concise instructions about
how to implement a transhuman lifestyle. Most books are 
specialized towards one aspect (calorie restriction, memory
enhancement, organization skills etc) or too general to be
of any use. In order
to both introduce outsiders to transhumanism and to help
the members to become more transhuman we began to develop
the Aleph Handbook. The project has so far taken around one
year of intermittent work, but the result is a 250 page
handbook to transhuman thinking and living. 

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Ancona 98?
European Transhumanist Meeting

So far there have been no transhumanist conferences in Europe,
and the different transhumanists and transhumanist groups have had little
contact. There are likely many groups who have not yet linked up to
the Internet and the global transhumanist community. It has been 
suggested it is time to arrange an european
transhumanist meeting, in order to network and discover what our
common goals and interests are. 

Preliminary ideas (mainly intended as sketch to get started):

Time: a weekend, early August 1998
Place: Ancona, Italy
Goal: Networking, discovering european transhumanism

Transhumanism in Europe: who are we? where are we? where are we going?

Events: 
	Presentations of the participants
	Talks, e.g. 
		The European Union and transhumanism
		Old World transhumanism compared to New World transhumanism
	Seminar discussions

Anyone interested in participating or helping bring about the
European Transhumanist Meeting should contact Anders Sandberg
anders@aleph.se / nv91-asa@nada.kth.se