Settling the Future: The Colonial Mindset in Transhumanism

Settling the Future: The Colonial Mindset in Transhumanism: "While I share dreams of interstellar travel, I find positive invocation of European colonialism profoundly problematic. If posthumans see themselves as Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, and John Smith when they set off for the stars, expect very bad things. Let’s decolonize our desires, folks."