Techno-progressivism
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Template:DMCA Techno-progressivism, or tech-progressivism,[1] is a stance of active support for the convergence of technological change and social change. Techno-progressives argue that technological developments can be profoundly empowering and emancipatory when they are regulated by legitimate democratic and accountable authorities to ensure that their costs, risks and benefits are all fairly shared by the actual stakeholders to those developments.[2][3][self-published source?] One of the first mentions of techno-progressivism appeared within extropian jargon in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization".[4]
Stance
Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of progress should focus on scientific and technical dimensions, as well as ethical and social ones. For most techno-progressive perspectives, then, the growth of scientific knowledge or the accumulation of technological powers will not represent the achievement of proper progress unless and until it is accompanied by a just distribution of the costs, risks, and benefits of these new knowledges and capacities. At the same time, for most techno-progressive critics and advocates, the achievement of better democracy, greater fairness, less violence, and a wider rights culture are all desirable, but inadequate in themselves to confront the quandaries of contemporary technological societies unless and until they are accompanied by progress in science and technology to support and implement these values.[3][self-published source?]
Strong techno-progressive positions include support for the civil right of a person to either maintain or modify their own mind and body, on their own terms, through informed, consensual recourse to, or refusal of, available therapeutic or enabling biomedical technology.[5]Template:Better source
During the November 2014 Transvision Conference, many of the leading transhumanist organizations signed the Technoprogressive Declaration, which stated the values of technoprogressivism.[6]
List of notable techno-progressive social critics
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- Technocritic Dale Carrico with his accounts of techno-progressivism[3]
- Philosopher Donna Haraway with her accounts of cyborg theory.[7]
- Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff with his accounts of open source.[8]
- Cultural critic Mark Dery and his accounts of cyberculture.[9]
- Science journalist Chris Mooney with his account of the U.S. Republican Party's "war on science".[10]
- Futurist Bruce Sterling with his Viridian design movement.[11]
- Futurist Alex Steffen and his accounts of bright green environmentalism through the Worldchanging blog.[12]
- Science journalist Annalee Newitz with her accounts of the Bio punk.[13][14]
- Bioethicist James Hughes of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies with his accounts of democratic transhumanism.[15]
See also
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leijten, Jos (January 2019). "Science, technology and innovation diplomacy: a way forward for Europe. Institute for European Studies Policy Brief Issue 2019/15". www.ies.be. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carrico, Dale (2004). "The Trouble with "Transhumanism": Part Two". Archived from the original on September 8, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carrico, Dale (2005). "Technoprogressivism Beyond Technophilia and Technophobia". Archived from the original on September 8, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sikora, Tomasz (2003). The Cultural Dimension of Waste: a Critique of the Ethos of Technology. Economic and Environmental Studies. p. 103-112.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carrico, Dale (2006). "The Politics of Morphological Freedom". Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Technoprogressive Declaration - Transvision 2014, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies". Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Haraway, Donna (1991). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.""Open Source Reality": Douglas Rushkoff Examines the Effects of Open Source | EDUCAUSE". Educause.edu. July 1, 2008. Archived from the original on May 16, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dery, Mark (1994). Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1540-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mooney, Chris (2005). The Republican War on Science. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-04676-2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sterling, Bruce (2001). "Viridian: The Manifesto of January 3, 2000". Archived from the original on January 8, 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Steffen, Alex (2006). Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-3095-1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Newitz, Annalee (2001). "Biopunk". Archived from the original on December 20, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Newitz, Annalee (February 27, 2002). "Genome liberation". Salon. Retrieved May 18, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hughes, James (2004). Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-4198-1.
