Cosmism > Technology Must Be Focused On Doing Good
Cosmism > Technology must be singularly focused on doing good
In Cosmism the danger is the unintended damage that can occur from powerful technology applied with even the best intentions. As in medieval magic, the best protection for Cosmists is the cross, the conviction that all technological advance must be pursued not for its own sake but for the sake of, and in the name of, the Christian task of resurrection.
In contrast to some of his followers, Fedorov repeatedly emphasizes that technological advance, if pursued independently from advances in morality, the arts, government, and spirituality, and if pursued for its own sake or for purposes other than the resurrection of the ancestors, could end only in disaster.
[#Young2012]: George M. Young. The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers. 2012.