New World Order (conspiracy theory)

===''Brave New World''===
[[File:Stop The New World Order.jpg|thumb|2007 graffiti on a brick wall: "Stop The New World Order"]]
[[Antiscience]] and [[neo-Luddism|neo-Luddite]] conspiracy theorists emphasize [[technology forecasting]] in their New World Order conspiracy theories. They speculate that the global power elite are [[reactionary modernism|reactionary modernists]] pursuing a [[transhumanist]] plan to develop and use [[human enhancement technologies]] to become a "[[Posthuman#Posthuman in transhumanism|posthuman]] ruling [[caste]]", while [[accelerating change|change accelerates]] toward a [[technological singularity]]—a theorized future point of discontinuity when events will accelerate at such a pace that normal unenhanced humans will be unable to predict or even understand the rapid changes occurring in the world around them. Conspiracy theorists fear the outcome will either be the emergence of a ''[[Brave New World]]''-like [[dystopia]]—a "Brave New World Order"—or the [[human extinction|extinction of the human species]].<ref name="Collins 2006">{{cite book|author=Collins, Phillip D.|title=The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship: An Examination of Epistemic Autocracy, From the 19th to the 21st Century|publisher=BookSurge Publishing|date=2006|isbn=1-4196-3932-3}}</ref>

[[democratic transhumanism|Democratic transhumanists]], such as American sociologist [[James Hughes (sociologist)|James Hughes]], counter that many influential members of the United States establishment are [[bioconservatism|bioconservatives]] strongly opposed to [[human enhancement]], as demonstrated by [[The President's Council on Bioethics|President Bush's Council on Bioethics]]'s proposed international treaty prohibiting [[human cloning]] and [[germline engineering]]. Furthermore, he argues that conspiracy theorists underestimate how fringe the transhumanist movement really is.<ref name="Hughes 2004">{{cite book|author=Hughes, James|title=Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future|publisher=Westview Press|date=2004|isbn=0-8133-4198-1}}</ref>