Techno-futurist

The techno-futurists "transcend" the dialectic between capital and labor merely by denying labor. Their mystification of technology is an intellectual reflection of the commodity fetishism that arises from market relations.

'Hey, I'm not the one trying to live forever here,' she said. 'I'm not a survivalist. I'm not a fucking techno-futurist. I know I'm going to die. I'm fine with that.'

Techno-futurists, or at least some of these techno-futurists, thus believed they were being forced to stare at the basilisk; either choosing to do nothing and earn the torment of the AI, or making the enforced decision to slave away for its future existence.

Now, a hodgepodge of religious conservatives and techno-futurists are leading the United States into the fray.

In graduate school, I became engaged with bioethics as a domain where techno-futurist questions about genetic engineering and neuroscience were running up against practical politics and law, cutting across the traditional Left/Right division with new philosophical challenges about personhood and identity to which Buddhist metaphysics seemed deeply relevant.

This chapter extends traditional functionalist approaches to design to engage cultural, experience-based, and techno-futurist approaches.

The techno-futurist quest for life extension is an attempt to open out the lifespan of the individual so as to be continuous with the linear temporality of capitalist production.