This Week's White Guys of "The Future" Report

I made my weekly visit to the stealth-Robot Cult outfit IEET's website, and can report that there is not a single person who is not a white guy among the portraits of today's featured authors and speakers there. You may recall that last week and the week before there was one white lady (who had written a piece about lady parts) included among the manifold featured futurological pieces, so this week represents a bit of back-sliding for our brave retro-futurological foot soldiers (though having one white lady writing about lady parts surrounding by white boys enthusing about their toys isn't exactly any sane person's idea of the summit of representativeness, one cannot help noting).

I do continue to maintain that since only a minority of people in the world are white guys, a minority of people with whom tomorrow will be shared are white guys, a minority of people in the world impacted by technodevelopmental changes are white guys, and a minority of people in the world who are well informed about matters of technoscience are white guys this endless ongoing parade of techno-transcendentalizing white guys is an enormously problematic thing (though far from the only one, for more go here) about the so-called "serious futurists" and "bioethicists" and technoscience "policy wonks" of the IEET.