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Technological utopianism

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immortality
thumb|The Fountain of Eternal Life in [[Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is described as symbolizing "Man rising above death, reaching upward to God and toward Peace."]]
eugenics
thumb|upright=1.5|1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society. Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "[[Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency", and "Marry Wisely".]]
transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies to enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being. Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy and religion. Some critics argue that transhumanism amounts to little more than a "rebranding" of eugenics.
The Venus Project
american organization
post-scarcity economy
Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.
The Californian Ideology
1995 essay on media theory and Silicon Valley politics
technological utopianism
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
Cyber-utopianism
Cyber-utopianism, web-utopianism, digital utopianism, or utopian internet is a subcategory of technological utopianism and the belief that online communication helps bring about a more decentralized, democratic, and libertarian society. The desired values may also be privacy and anonymity, freedom of expression, access to culture and information or also socialist ideals leading to digital socialism. ==Origins== The Californian Ideology is a set of beliefs combining bohemian and anti-authoritarian attitudes from the counterculture of the 1960s with techno-utopianism and support for neoliberal e
Techno-populism
Techno-populism is either a populism in favor of technocracy or a populism concerning certain technology – usually information technology – or any populist ideology conversed using digital media. It can be employed by single politicians or whole political movements respectively. Neighboring terms used in a similar way are technocratic populism, technological populism, and cyber-populism. Italy's Five Star Movement and France's La République En Marche! have been described as technopopulist political movements.
post-work society
form of society in which pursuing a fixed gainful occupation has become largely obsolete