Giulio Prisco (born in Naples in 1957) is an Italian information technology and virtual reality consultant;[1][2][3] as well as a writer, futurist,[4] transhumanist,[5] and cosmist.

[9] He produced teleXLR8, an online talk program using virtual reality and video conferencing, and focused on highly imaginative science and technology.

[20] He is also a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, and the Turing Church,[21][22] fledgling organizations which claim that the benefits of a technological singularity, which would come from accelerating change, should or would be viable alternatives to the promises of major religious groups.

[23][24][25][26][27][28] Prisco has been repeatedly at odds[citation needed] with technocritic Dale Carrico who argues that transhumanism is technological utopianism turned into a new religious movement.

[32] Prisco has also written the chapter "Transcendent Engineering" for the 2013 book The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future[33] and the chapter "Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments" in the 2010 Springer book Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual.