Toward Eternity

A Novel

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Anton Hur: Toward Eternity (2024, HarperCollins Publishers)

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Published 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-334450-1
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reviewed Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Tech-spiritual page-turner fable

4 stars

(em português → sol2070.in/2025/03/livro-toward-eternity-estoria-tecno-espiritual/ )

Reading Anton Hur's science fiction “Toward Eternity” (2024, 256 pgs), I thought about how genuinely interesting futuristic stories end up being spoiled by the ideals of today's techno-economic domination.

The book is a page-turner that would have sounded perfect 20 or 30 years ago, about transhumanist immortality. I read it in two days, stimulated by the fantastic narrative power. The problem is that transhumanist technologies, and all the cargo that comes with them, are being worshipped and sought after especially among technobillionaires and their associated futurist sects ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL ).

Last week I listened to a great episode of the podcast Tech Won't Save Us ( techwontsave.us/episode/151_dont_fall_for_the_ai_hype_w_timnit_gebru.html ), with AI researcher Timnit Gebru — it was she who coined, with Émile P. Torres, the term “Tescreal” to refer to these sects. Reading the novel, I was reminded several times of something they mentioned in this …