Utopian Aspects of the Debate on Converging Technologies

Given the historical importance of utopian thought, this article discusses aspects of it in posthumanist technofuturism and the use of utopian and anti-utopian references in the ongoing debate on technological convergence.

Christopher Coenen argues that posthumanist visions function as common reference points in this debate and together form an intellectual repository for polemical and other purposes. Moreover, some possible consequences for the assessment of the ethical and societal implications of technological convergence are also addressed.