Upgraded and Adapted from the Moot:
What the transhumanists and other futurologists and Robot Cultists mean by “changing the world” is shopping more and faster in tech heaven.
What the transhumanists want is an amplification of the unsustainable inequitable homogenizing immiserating precarizing status quo peddled as “accelerating change.”
They want to get rich quick and never die. They think of "technology" as a toypile to Heaven. They are stupid loud vulgar Americanism accelerating exponentially.
Futurology is a variation of corporate-military marketing discourse, all hype and deception and self-promotion. Futurology is speculation peddled as data and cartoons peddled as results.
And the superlative subcultural futurology of the Robot Cult is the reductio ad absurdum of all this marketing and self-promotion: reactionary wish-fulfillment fantasizing led by guru-wannabe pseudo-scientists and neoliberal think-tank pseudo-intellectuals peddling techno-transcendence to scared and greedy rubes.
To speak of "The Future" is always to indulge in reaction. All futurisms are finally retro-futurisms.
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