Our primary environmental milieu (now and increasingly into the future) is other people, and that means social organization. Individual specialization in intelligent systems of people and technologies is the power and potential of modern existence as well as its frustrations and challenges.

Over the millennia, individual human existence has become completely dependent on an increasingly complex network of other people on a global dimension. This is an extremely unnatural condition for the original, human phenotype which was selected for a small tribal society that was embedded in a wild ecology. Your adaptive potential and personal health and sanity depend on the health and sanity of the people with whom you relate - both locally and remotely. Thus, given the goal of infinite survival, the general strategy, that is consistent with the ideology, is for each individual to participate in and build social networks which are relevant to one's purpose and objectives.

The world appears to be in a condition of increasingly chaos and instability. It is uncertain whether this perception is actually true or mostly a product of enhanced communication via new media. (Most likely, there are parrallel currents, some ascending and other descending, and the challenge is mostly of positioning oneself in those that are ascending.) Regardless, we still must cope with and take advantage of this increasing complexity while working toward our collective and individual goals. While the "survivalist" strategy usually is oriented toward retreat, isolation, and creating sustainable systems for small groups; an "infinite survivalist" might hold that as an option but would also have to run a parallel track of full immersion in multi-tiered global networks. If one wanted a fictional scenario which is probably an accurate metaphor, the movie "Blade Runner" might be the most apropos - ultra high-tech civilization entrenched in a teaming proletariat of mixed cultures and socio-economic masses.

Our primary focus with FIS is on creating a social network which will develop life-extension science. But, as stated earlier, life-extension necessarily entails a wide spectrum of considerations; and the enterprise is more complex than the usual business model of inventing and distribute bio-medical technologies. This is the subject of Chapter IV of the Manual, and it will be explored and developed in some of the planned features of our web-site and the proposed center.