Giulio Prisco

Giulio Prisco is an information technology and virtual reality consultant; as well as a writer, futurist, and transhumanist. Currently based in Madrid, Spain, he runs the consulting company Metafuturing and contributes to the science and technology online magazine Tendencias21. He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics, including science, information technology, emerging technologies, virtual worlds, space exploration and futurology.

Formerly a senior manager in the European Space Agency, 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 temporarily executive director, and continues to serve as a member on the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and of the Associazione Italiana Transumanisti. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Lifeboat Foundation and a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, a fledgling organization which claims 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. Prisco has been repeatedly at odds with technocritic Dale Carrico on the question of whether or not transhumanism is a form of pseudoreligious technophilia.

External links

• Giulio Prisco's blog
• Metafuturing website
• Tendencias21 (a Spanish language online magazine on futurism)
• Order of Cosmic Engineers (about page)
• Associazione Italiana Transumanisti (about page)