Technological utopianism is a great thing and we should have more of it as a thread in the great global conversion. It has a very interesting history if you&#x27;re prepared to go chase it down, something in every decade from the late 1800s on. Cosmism (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Russian_cosmism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Russian_cosmism</a>), Bernal&#x27;s The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marxists.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;bernal&#x2F;works&#x2F;1920s&#x2F;soul&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marxists.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;bernal&#x2F;works&#x2F;1920s&#x2F;soul&#x2F;ind...</a>), and the more recent paradise engineering of the Hedonistic Imperative (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hedweb.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hedweb.org&#x2F;</a>) spring to mind among many, many others.<p>People like the author of this article have a way of looking at the early transhumanists and saying &quot;well, then the ugly parts of the 20th century happened,&quot; and somehow then discarding the original point, the goal, the wonder of the possible. The point still stands, however: that we can in principle engineer utopia, build technologies to eliminate pain, suffering, and death, and create wonders of macroscale engineering along the way. As a species we continue to move in that direction. Despite the intervening mass upheavals and deaths in the past 100 years, isn&#x27;t 2015 so very much better to live in than 1915? And the 160 million people who died due to war in the 20th century are a small fraction of the ~3 billion (very approximately) who died in total. War is not a big part of the problem, for all that Serious Thinkers seem ponder little else.<p>More people should be for technological utopianism, with eyes open. It shouldn&#x27;t be remarkable to sit up and say &quot;we can and should do more to stop suffering and death, and there is no point in stopping until it is all gone.&quot; Perhaps it would go faster if it wasn&#x27;t just the science fiction authors, scientists, and philosophers who gave a little time to appreciate the bounds of the possible.