Category Archives: Background

International Federation For Internal Freedom - Statement of Purpose

March 21, 2009 – 1:39 pm

While transcribing Bruce Damer’s talk to the crowd at our February 8, 2009 reunion and reception, Bruce referenced the IFIF, the “International Federation for Internal Freedom,” an organization created by Tim and the group we was doing research with while at Harvard.
Here is the organization’s Statement of Purpose:
Statement of Purpose of the Internal Federation for [...]

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Video: Tim Explains How He’ll Use His Online Archives In The Future

March 1, 2009 – 8:24 pm

In the process of creating our new Donate page, we came across this nice clip of Tim from late 1995/early 1996, where explains how he’ll be able to search online through his own archives in the future, after he has been reanimated.
When this video was recorded, Tim was planning on having his head cryonically frozen, [...]

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The Annotated Bibliography of Dr. Timothy Leary - Available Online

February 3, 2009 – 3:20 pm

Tim’s Annotated Bibliography, by Michael Horowitz, Karen Walls and Billy Smith, is now available online.
We’re not sure who put it up there, but we’re glad it’s there, until we can scan a copy of our own from Tim’s archives. (Of course, our copy at the Internet Archive will be OCR’d and searchable…and in HTML, eventually [...]

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About the Futique Trust

December 4, 2008 – 8:27 am

The word “Futique” was coined by Timothy Leary when he began designing computer software in the 1980s.
“‘Futique’ is the opposite of ‘antique,’” he said.
And, let’s face it, everything about Timothy Leary was aimed at the future. Thus, he called his company Futique, Inc.
Futique was a consortium of artists, writers, programmers, designers, educators and, of course, [...]

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