different between extropian vs extropy

English

Alternative forms

• Extropian

Etymology

extropy +? -an

Adjective

extropian

1. Of, or relating to extropy.

Noun

extropian (plural extropians)

1. An adherent or advocate of, or an activist for, extropy or extropianism and its goals or principles.
   • 2001?, Rob Lightner, Amazon review of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age by Chris Hables Gray:

     Though [Chris Hables Gray] does go out of his way to remind the reader that nearly all of us are bio-enhanced (that is a vaccination scar, isn’t it?), he’s neither a chrome-eyed Extropian nor a Rifkinesque fear-mongerer.

   • 2002, Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, MIT Press (?ISBN), page 155:

     The Extropian movement has an active Web presence. Here is one statement on “What Is an Extropian”: Extropians seek to use technology intelligently to overcome genetic, biological, psychological, cultural, and neurological limits to the pursuit of life, liberty, and boundless achievement. An extropian is an optimist, a neophile, an explorer […]

Derived terms

• extropianism

English

Etymology

First coined to serve as an antonym of entropy, substituting its en- element (representing the prepositional prefix ?? (en), en, “in” in its Ancient Greek etymon ???????? (entropía), entropia, “a turning towards”) with ex- (representing the Ancient Greek ?? (ex), ex, “out of”, “from”); because ?? (ex) takes the form ?? (ek) when prefixed to an element beginning with ? (t), the analogical spelling is ectropy (or, alternatively, ektropy), as if after the Ancient Greek *???????? (ektropía, “a turning out of”).

Noun

extropy

1. negentropy.

Derived terms

• extropian

Further reading

• Extropy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia