Philosophies & Movements
Paradise Engineering
The proposal that technology should be used to abolish suffering outright — not reduce it, but engineer it out of biology, in humans and eventually in animals too, using genetics, drugs and whatever computing power allows. Supporters treat suffering as a solvable engineering fault. Critics answer that pain carries information, that someone would have to decide what counts as a good life for everyone else, and that the same argument has been used to justify remaking people against their will.
Origin
The position and the phrase come from British transhumanist philosopher David Pearce, set out in his 1995 online manifesto “The Hedonistic Imperative” and developed across his own sites, including one named paradise-engineering.com. He is a co-founder of what is now Humanity+, and the view is usually called “abolitionism” when stated as an ethical claim rather than a technical one.