The TESCREAL utopian ideals discussed earlier are more radical than the utopian societies envisioned by their first-wave eugenics predecessors. As discussed in sections 3 and 4, contingents of the TESCREAL bundle do not strive to merely bui…Ed Regis, 1994. “Meet the extropians,” Wired (1 October), at https://www.wired.com/1994/10/extropians/, accessed 31 January 2024.
Reuters, 2023a. “OpenAI may leave the EU if regulations bite — CEO” (24 May), at https://www.reuters.com/tech…
David Rowan
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David Rowan appears to be referenced primarily as an editor or curator of tech journalism rather than as a theorist in his own right. The excerpts provided are minimal—one incomplete passage on TESCREAL ideology and citations to other sources (Regis on extropians, Reuters on OpenAI)—making it difficult to determine his specific intellectual contribution to the course. He may be included as a journalist documenting the genealogy of tech utopianism and AI discourse, but without fuller context his role remains marginal to the seminar's core concerns with cybernetics, AI ethics, and ideology.
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