Editing Techno-progressivism (section)

{{Short description|Stance of active support for the convergence of technological and social change}}
{{Progressivism|ideas}}
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{{distinguish|Technological utopianism|Techno-populism}}
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'''Techno-progressivism''', or '''tech-progressivism''',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leijten |first1=Jos |title=Science, technology and innovation diplomacy: a way forward for Europe. Institute for European Studies Policy Brief Issue 2019/15 |website=www.ies.be |date=January 2019 |url=http://aei.pitt.edu/97388/ |access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref> is a stance of active support for the [[wikt:convergence|convergence]] of [[technological change]] and [[social change]]. Techno-progressives argue that technological developments can be profoundly [[empowerment|empowering]] and [[freedom (political)|emancipatory]] when they are regulated by legitimate [[democracy|democratic]] and [[accountable]] authorities to ensure that their [[social cost|cost]]s, [[risk]]s and [[cost-benefit analysis|benefits]] are all fairly shared by the actual [[stakeholder (corporate)|stakeholders]] to those developments.<ref name="Carrico 2004">{{cite web |first=Dale |last=Carrico |title=The Trouble with "Transhumanism": Part Two |date=2004 |url=http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20041222/ |access-date=2007-01-28 |authorlink=Dale Carrico |journal= |archive-date=2016-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908070459/http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20041222 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Carrico 2005">{{cite web |first=Dale |last=Carrico |authorlink=Dale Carrico |title=Technoprogressivism Beyond Technophilia and Technophobia |date=2005 |url=http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20060812/ |access-date=2007-01-28 |journal= |archive-date=2016-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908070510/http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20060812 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{SPS|date=September 2022}} One of the first mentions of techno-progressivism appeared within [[extropian]] jargon in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sikora |first1=Tomasz |title=The Cultural Dimension of Waste: a Critique of the Ethos of Technology. Economic and Environmental Studies |date=2003 |page=103-112 |url=https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/ees/article/download/2816/2272}}</ref>