Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living
by Richard Doyle  - 
University of Minnesota Press
Jun 1, 2003
p 135

Engines of Anticiaption

This rhetorical production of anticipation - the smearing of the 
future into the very operations of the present - percolates through 
the quasi-popular, quasi-scientific discourses that uploading draws on 
and lives in.  Indeed, in If Uploads Come First, an essay by 
researcher Robin Hanson whose title telegraphs the anticipated 
jouissance of uploaded replication, the anticipation of uploading is 
itself networked with the market:

   What does all this mean for you now?  If you expect that you or 
people how care about might life to see an upload transition, you 
might want to start to teach yourself and your children some new 
habits.   Learn to diversify your assets, so they are less at risk 
from a large drop in wages; invest in mutual funds, real estate, etc. 
and consider ways in which you might sell fractions of your future 
wages for other forms of wealth.  If you can't so diversity, consider 
saving more.

So too does the appropriately named Foresight Institute - one of the 
most foremost resources for uploading discourse, founded by 
nanotechnological personality K. Eric Drexler - operate in such an 
anticipatory economy.   Not merely a site for research into 
nanotechnology and uploading, Foresight's policy is "to prepare for 
nanotechnology" by ...