Giulio Prisco
Giulio Prisco is Executive Director and Board member of the
World
Transhumanist Association (WTA),
founder and CEO of
metafuturing S.L.,
a company specializing in Science and Technology
Consulting, Internet Services and Virtual Reality,
and
is the Director of the futurist consulting consortium
FutureTag.
He is based in Madrid,
Spain,
where he founded the Spanish transhumanist group
FASTRA. He
also serves on the Board of Directors of the
Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and
on the
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) Global
Task Force on Implications and Policy.
Giulio is a former physicist and computer scientist, and
former
manager at the European Space Agency (ESA). He
worked at CERN from 1984 to 1988, ESA from 1988 to
1993, and the
European Union Satellite Centre from 1993 to 2005.
He has in-depth expertise in several fields including physics,
scientific
software design and development, real-time software design and
development, computer science, high performance computing and
networking, computer graphics and Virtual Reality, satellite
observation and surveillance, geomatics, space, defence, technology
foresight, technology management, administration, and management.
Besides, he has developed an excellent high level, horizontal view of
the interrelations and synergies between different science and
technology domains.
He authored
Futurist Spaceflight Meditations and Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion,
enlightening science, awakening technology,
How long before uploading?,
Engineering Transcendence,
Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy,
Transhumanism, a philosophy for the third millennium,
MMOGs in the tens,
Interview with Frank J. Tipler,
Interview with Rudy Rucker,
Interview with Robert Ettinger,
I am a posthuman cyborg, and
From Wi-Fi to a Global Brain,
and coauthored
Shadows and the concept of self,
Parallelization of a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for
fluid dynamics, and
3D exploitation system for operational
applications of Earth observation data.
Giulio earned a degree in theoretical/computational physics at
Universitá degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’
in
1983. He speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and Italian and
also
speaks Hungarian, Dutch and German.
Read his
blog. Listen to him on
The Future And You.
