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{{short description|Italian computer scientist}}
'''Giulio Prisco''' is an [[Information Technology]] and [[Virtual Reality]] consultant<ref>{{Cite web |title=Metafuturing website |url=http://metafuturing.net/index.php/metafuturing:About}}</ref>; as well as a [[futures studies|futurist]], writer and [[transhumanist]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giulio Prisco's blog |url=http://transumanar.com/}}</ref>. Currently based in [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], he runs the consulting company Metafuturing and contributes to the science and technology online magazine Tendencias21<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tendencias21 |url=http://www.tendencias21.net}}</ref>. His principal interests include: science, [[emerging technologies]], IT, VR worlds, space and future studies.
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| birth_place = [[Naples]], Italy
| nationality = Italian
| occupation = Information technology consultant, virtual reality consultant, writer, futurist, transhumanist, cosmist
| known_for = Advocacy of cryonics, contributions to transhumanism
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'''Giulio Prisco''' (born in [[Naples]] in 1957) is an Italian [[information technology]] and [[virtual reality]] consultant;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mi otra vida virtual, El Pais| url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/vida/virtual/elpepuespval/20060806elpepspor_4/Tes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mondes virtuels, Web de demain ? | website=[[Le Monde]] |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=968237}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SECOND LIFE : PUBLICIDAD DE PÍXEL |url=http://www2.interactivadigital.com/medios/www/object.php?o=39664 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102121233/http://www.interactivadigital.com/medios/www/object.php?o=39664 |archivedate=2007-11-02 }}</ref> as well as a writer, [[futurist]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ci'NUM Designers of Tomorrow |url=http://www.cinum.org/fr/30_experts/4-16.html |access-date=2009-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219235835/http://www.cinum.org/fr/30_experts/4-16.html |archive-date=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[transhumanist]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giulio Prisco's blog |url=http://transumanar.com/}}</ref> and [[Russian cosmism|cosmist]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sirius |first=R.U. |title=Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity | isbn = 978-1938875090
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Everything That Rises|url=https://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/everything-that-rises/}}</ref> He is an advocate of [[cryonics]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=La eternidad no empieza aquí… por ahora|url=http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-general/la-eternidad-no-empieza-aqui-por-ahora_GdCo7i5zt7MAnjqadQQeM1/|access-date=2011-08-05|archive-date=2012-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212014436/http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-general/la-eternidad-no-empieza-aqui-por-ahora_GdCo7i5zt7MAnjqadQQeM1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and contributes to the science and technology online magazine ''Tendencias21''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tendencias21 |url=http://www.tendencias21.net}}</ref> He produced teleXLR8, an online talk program using virtual reality and video conferencing, and focused on highly imaginative science and
technology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TeleXLR8 wants to be the "TED" for virtual worlds|url=http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/10/telexlr8-wants-to-be-the-ted-for-virtual-worlds/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=MIND and MAN: Getting Mental with Giulio Prisco|url=http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/09/12/mind-and-man-getting-mental-giulio-prisco/}}</ref> He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics,<ref>{{Cite web |title= Future and You podcast, Feb 20th 2008|url=http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=309115}}</ref> including science, information technology, [[emerging technologies]], [[virtual world]]s, [[space exploration]] and [[futurology]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy |url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0659.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629121955/http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=%2Farticles%2Fart0659.html |archivedate=2008-06-29 }}</ref>


Prisco's ideas on virtual realities, [[Immortality#Technological immortality|technological immortality]], [[mind uploading]], and new scientific religions are extensively featured in the [[Oxford University Press|OUP]] books ''Apocalyptic AI - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality'' by Robert M. Geraci<ref>{{cite book |last=Geraci |first=Robert M. |title=Apocalyptic AI - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality | isbn = 978-0-19-539302-6}}</ref> and ''Virtually Sacred - Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life'' by the same author.<ref>{{cite book |last=Geraci |first=Robert M. |title=Virtually Sacred - Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life | isbn = 9780199344697}}</ref>
Formerly a senior manager in the European Space Administration ([[ESA]]), he is a former [[physicist]] and [[computer scientist]]. He recently resigned as Executive Director and Board member of the [[World Transhumanist Association]] but continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the [[Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies bio page for Giulio Prisco |url=http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/prisco/}}</ref>. He is also a member of the advisory board of the [[Lifeboat Foundation]] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Lifeboat Foundation's bio page for Giulio Prisco |url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.giulio.prisco/}}</ref> and a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, an as yet largely ignored association which claims accelerating technological change (and a resulting [[technological singularity]]) should or would be a viable alternative to established major religions. <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Order of Cosmic Engineers |url=http://cosmeng.org/index.php/Order_of_Cosmic_Engineers:About}}</ref>. Giulio Prisco has been repeatedly at odds with the blogger [[Dale Carrico]] on the topic of "longterm transhumanism". <ref>{{Cite web |title=Amor Mundi |url=http://amormundi.blogspot.com:About}}</ref>.


Prisco's ideas are also extensively featured in the 2017 book ''Dynamic Secularization - Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science'' by William Sims Bainbridge<ref>{{cite book |last=Bainbridge |first=William Sims |title=Dynamic Secularization - Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science | isbn = 978-3-319-56502-6}}</ref> and the 2019 book ''Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status'' by Roberto Manzocco,<ref>{{cite book |last=Manzocco |first=Roberto |title=Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status | isbn = 978-3-030-04958-4}}</ref> both published by [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]].
==See also==
*[[Futures studies]]
*[[Transhumanism]]


Formerly a researcher at [[CERN]], a staff member at the [[European Space Agency]], and a senior manager at the [[European Union Satellite Centre]], Prisco is a [[physicist]] and [[computer scientist]]. He served as a member on the board of directors of [[World Transhumanist Association]], of which he was the executive director, and the board of directors of the [[Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies bio page for Giulio Prisco |url=http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/prisco/}}</ref>
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from which he resigned in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=I have resigned from the IEET Board of Directors |url=http://giulioprisco.com/i-have-resigned-from-the-ieet-board-of-directors-793d10a10a8a}}</ref>
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He is currently the president of the Associazione Italiana
Transumanisti.<ref>{{cite web |title=Associazione Italiana Transumanisti: Umanesimo Scientifico: intervista a Giulio Prisco |url=http://guide.supereva.it/controcultura/interventi/2010/04/umanesimo-scientifico-intervista-a-giulio-prisco}}</ref> He is also a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, and the Turing Church,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Turing Church - WRSP | url = https://wrldrels.org/2019/08/03/turing-church/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = 'Blessed by the algorithm': Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse (2020) | year = 2020| doi = 10.1007/s00146-020-00968-2| pmid = 32355422| last1 = Singler| first1 = B.| journal = AI & Society| volume = 35| issue = 4| pages = 945–955| pmc = 7191134}}</ref> fledgling organizations which claim that the benefits of a [[technological singularity]], which would come from [[accelerating change]], should or would be viable alternatives to the promises of [[major religious groups]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Order of Cosmic Engineers |url=http://cosmeng.org/index.php/Order_of_Cosmic_Engineers:About |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914172919/http://cosmeng.org/index.php/Order_of_Cosmic_Engineers:About |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-09-14 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Secondhand Smoke: Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion |url=http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2007/01/give-me-that-new-transhumanist.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Giulio Prisco To Present in Second Life Conference on the Future of Religion |url=http://transfigurism.org/community/blogs/administration/archive/2008/06/04/4626.aspx |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820070250/http://transfigurism.org/community/blogs/administration/archive/2008/06/04/4626.aspx |archivedate=2008-08-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Un universo paralelo (y digital) |url=http://www.myriades1.com/vernotas.php?id=555&lang=es |access-date=2010-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905050254/http://www.myriades1.com/?lang=es |archive-date=2012-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Technological Transcendence: An Interview with Giulio Prisco|url=http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/02/08/technological-transcendence-an-interview-with-giulio-prisco/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Cosmist Convictions (Mostly by Giulio Prisco)|url=http://cosmistmanifesto.blogspot.com/2009/01/ten-cosmist-convictions-mostly-by.html}}</ref>

Prisco has been repeatedly at odds{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} with [[technocriticism|technocritic]] [[Dale Carrico]] who argues that transhumanism is [[technological utopianism]] turned into a [[new religious movement]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amor Mundi: Giulio Prisco's Defense of Superlative Nonsense |url=http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2007/11/giulio-priscos-defense-of-superlative.html}}</ref> Prisco agrees but counters that transhumanism is an “unreligion” because it offers many of the benefits of religion without its drawbacks.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Transhumanist spirituality, again | url = http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2008/10/transhumanist-spirituality-again.html}}</ref>

==Published works==
===Books===
Prisco has published two books. The first, published in 2018 and again in 2020 with its second edition, is titled ''"Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology"''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Prisco |first=Giulio |title=Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology | isbn = 979-8610545066}}</ref> The second book, published in 2021, is titled ''Futurist spaceflight meditations''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Prisco |first=Giulio |title=Futurist spaceflight meditations | isbn = 979-8514323104}}</ref>

===Book chapters===
Prisco has also written the chapter "Transcendent Engineering" for the 2013 book ''The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future''<ref>{{cite book |last=More |first=Max |title=The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future | isbn = 978-1118334317}}</ref> and the chapter "Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments" in the 2010 Springer book ''Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bainbridge |first=William Sims |title=Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual | isbn = 978-1-84882-825-4}}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://transumanar.com/ Giulio Prisco's blog]
* [http://giulioprisco.com/ Giulio Prisco's central website]
* [http://metafuturing.net/index.php/metafuturing:About Metafuturing website]
* [http://turingchurch.net/ Turing Church website]
* [http://www.tendencias21.net/ Tendencias21 (a Spanish language online magazine about the future)]
* [http://www.turingchurch.com/ Turing Church newsletter & podcast]
* [http://www.tendencias21.net/ Tendencias21 (a Spanish language online magazine on futurism)]
* [http://cosmeng.org/index.php/Order_of_Cosmic_Engineers:About The Order of Cosmic Engineers (about page)]
* [http://www.transumanisti.it/1.asp?idPagina=4 Associazione Italiana Transumanisti (about page)]

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Latest revision as of 09:19, 22 December 2024

Giulio Prisco
Giulio Prisco, picture by David Orban
Born1957 (age 67–68)
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Information technology consultant, virtual reality consultant, writer, futurist, transhumanist, cosmist
Known forAdvocacy of cryonics, contributions to transhumanism

Giulio Prisco (born in Naples in 1957) is an Italian information technology and virtual reality consultant;[1][2][3] as well as a writer, futurist,[4] transhumanist,[5] and cosmist.[6][7] He is an advocate of cryonics[8] and contributes to the science and technology online magazine Tendencias21.[9] He produced teleXLR8, an online talk program using virtual reality and video conferencing, and focused on highly imaginative science and technology.[10][11] He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics,[12] including science, information technology, emerging technologies, virtual worlds, space exploration and futurology.[13]

Prisco's ideas on virtual realities, technological immortality, mind uploading, and new scientific religions are extensively featured in the OUP books Apocalyptic AI - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality by Robert M. Geraci[14] and Virtually Sacred - Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life by the same author.[15]

Prisco's ideas are also extensively featured in the 2017 book Dynamic Secularization - Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science by William Sims Bainbridge[16] and the 2019 book Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status by Roberto Manzocco,[17] both published by Springer.

Formerly a researcher at CERN, a staff member at the European Space Agency, and a senior manager at the European Union Satellite Centre, Prisco is a physicist and computer scientist. He served as a member on the board of directors of World Transhumanist Association, of which he was the executive director, and the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,[18] from which he resigned in 2021.[19] He is currently the president of the Associazione Italiana Transumanisti.[20] He is also a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, and the Turing Church,[21][22] fledgling organizations which claim that the benefits of a technological singularity, which would come from accelerating change, should or would be viable alternatives to the promises of major religious groups.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

Prisco has been repeatedly at odds[citation needed] with technocritic Dale Carrico who argues that transhumanism is technological utopianism turned into a new religious movement.[29] Prisco agrees but counters that transhumanism is an “unreligion” because it offers many of the benefits of religion without its drawbacks.[30]

Published works

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Books

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Prisco has published two books. The first, published in 2018 and again in 2020 with its second edition, is titled "Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology".[31] The second book, published in 2021, is titled Futurist spaceflight meditations.[32]

Book chapters

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Prisco has also written the chapter "Transcendent Engineering" for the 2013 book The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future[33] and the chapter "Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments" in the 2010 Springer book Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual.[34]

References

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  1. ^ "Mi otra vida virtual, El Pais".
  2. ^ "Mondes virtuels, Web de demain ?". Le Monde.
  3. ^ "SECOND LIFE : PUBLICIDAD DE PÍXEL". Archived from the original on 2007-11-02.
  4. ^ "The Ci'NUM Designers of Tomorrow". Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
  5. ^ "Giulio Prisco's blog".
  6. ^ Sirius, R.U. Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity. ISBN 978-1938875090.
  7. ^ "Everything That Rises".
  8. ^ "La eternidad no empieza aquí… por ahora". Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  9. ^ "Tendencias21".
  10. ^ "TeleXLR8 wants to be the "TED" for virtual worlds".
  11. ^ "MIND and MAN: Getting Mental with Giulio Prisco".
  12. ^ "Future and You podcast, Feb 20th 2008".
  13. ^ "Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-29.
  14. ^ Geraci, Robert M. Apocalyptic AI - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. ISBN 978-0-19-539302-6.
  15. ^ Geraci, Robert M. Virtually Sacred - Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life. ISBN 9780199344697.
  16. ^ Bainbridge, William Sims. Dynamic Secularization - Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science. ISBN 978-3-319-56502-6.
  17. ^ Manzocco, Roberto. Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status. ISBN 978-3-030-04958-4.
  18. ^ "Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies bio page for Giulio Prisco".
  19. ^ "I have resigned from the IEET Board of Directors".
  20. ^ "Associazione Italiana Transumanisti: Umanesimo Scientifico: intervista a Giulio Prisco".
  21. ^ "Turing Church - WRSP".
  22. ^ Singler, B. (2020). "'Blessed by the algorithm': Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse (2020)". AI & Society. 35 (4): 945–955. doi:10.1007/s00146-020-00968-2. PMC 7191134. PMID 32355422.
  23. ^ "Order of Cosmic Engineers". Archived from the original on 2008-09-14.
  24. ^ "Secondhand Smoke: Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion".
  25. ^ "Giulio Prisco To Present in Second Life Conference on the Future of Religion". Archived from the original on 2008-08-20.
  26. ^ "Un universo paralelo (y digital)". Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  27. ^ "Technological Transcendence: An Interview with Giulio Prisco".
  28. ^ "Ten Cosmist Convictions (Mostly by Giulio Prisco)".
  29. ^ "Amor Mundi: Giulio Prisco's Defense of Superlative Nonsense".
  30. ^ "Transhumanist spirituality, again".
  31. ^ Prisco, Giulio. Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology. ISBN 979-8610545066.
  32. ^ Prisco, Giulio. Futurist spaceflight meditations. ISBN 979-8514323104.
  33. ^ More, Max. The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. ISBN 978-1118334317.
  34. ^ Bainbridge, William Sims. Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual. ISBN 978-1-84882-825-4.
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