Techno-Progressive

"Without democracy technodevelopment will bring utter disaster, without a focus on technodevelopmental social struggle democracy will wither into irrelevance. The stakes are high, but majorities are with us. It is high time for technoprogressive politics to assume its place at the table."
- Dale Carrico
Techno-progressivism, technoprogressivism, or tech-progressivism (a portmanteau word combining " technology -focused" and " progressivism "), is a stance of active support for the convergence of technological development and social progress. Strong techno-progressive positions include support for the consensual genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification of human beings in particular. Techno-progressives argue that technological developments can be profoundly empowering and emancipatory when they are regulated by legitimate democratic and accountable authorities to ensure that their costs, risks and benefits are all fairly shared by the actual stakeholders to those developments.
Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of "progress" should focus on scientific and technical dimensions, as well as ethical and social ones. For most techno-progressive perspectives, then, the growth of scientific knowledge or the accumulation of technological powers will not represent the achievement of proper progress unless and until it is accompanied by a just distribution of the costs, risks, and benefits of these new knowledges and capacities. At the same time, for most techno-progressive critics and advocates, the achievement of better democracy, greater fairness, less violence, and a wider rights culture are all desirable, but inadequate in themselves to confront the quandaries of contemporary technological societies unless and until they are accompanied by progress in science and technology to support and implement these values.
Although techno-progressivism can be seen as a third way between bioconservatism and techno-utopianism in the biopolitical spectrum, both techno-progressivism and bioconservatism, in their more reasonable expressions, share an opposition to unsafe, unfair, undemocratic forms of technological development, and both recognize that such developmental modes can facilitate unacceptable recklessness and exploitation, exacerbate injustice and incubate dangerous social discontent.