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'''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. |
'''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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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 |
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 "Rhetorician" [[Dale Carrico]] on the topic of "longterm transhumanism". <ref>{{Cite web |title=Amor Mundi |url=http://amormundi.blogspot.com:About}}</ref>. |
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==See also== |
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Revision as of 07:38, 26 November 2008
Giulio Prisco is an Information Technology and Virtual Reality consultant[1]; as well as a futurist, writer and transhumanist[2]. Currently based in Madrid, Spain, he runs the consulting company Metafuturing and contributes to the science and technology online magazine Tendencias21[3]. His principal interests include: science, emerging technologies, IT, VR worlds, space and future studies.
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[4]. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Lifeboat Foundation [5] 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. [6]. Giulio Prisco has been repeatedly at odds with the "Rhetorician" Dale Carrico on the topic of "longterm transhumanism". [7].