This morning only four of the faces of featured authors at the website of the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, so-called, are not those of white guys.
That's twice as many as last week, but still ridiculous, since -- as I have been pointing out every single week for months now -- after all, only a minority of people in the world are white guys, only a minority of people with whom tomorrow will be made and shared are white guys, only a minority of people in the world impacted by technodevelopmental changes are white guys, only a minority of people in the world who are well informed and have important things to say about matters of technoscience are white guys.
The relentless non-representativeness I keep documenting over at IEET is, for me, just one rather obvious symptom among many others of the marginality of the motley assortment of Robot Cultists -- transhumanists, singularitarians, techno-immortalists, nano-cornucopiasts, greenwashing geo-engineers, and Ayn Raelian "extropians" -- corralled kookily together there. For analysis of more glaring problems with the White Guys of "The Future" I recommend my Condensed Critique of Transhumanism.
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