Career
He is an advocate of cryonics and contributes to the science and technology online magazine Tendencias21. He produces teleXLR8, an online talk program using virtual reality and video conferencing, and focused on highly imaginative science and technology. He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics, including science, information technology, emerging technologies, virtual worlds, space exploration and futurology.
Prisco"s ideas on virtual realities, technological immortality, mind uploading, and new scientific religions are extensively featured in the Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK book "Apocalyptic Artificial Intelligence - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality".
Formerly a senior manager in the European Space Agency, Prisco is a physicist and computer scientist He served as a member on the board of directors of World Transhumanist Association, of which he was temporarily executive director, and continues to serve as a member on the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and of the Associazione Italiana Transumanisti.