© Can Stock Photo / buchachon Editorial Futural Appropriation Jeremy Pitt Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BT London, U.K. g Technology is driving society toward the endpoint of neocolonialism [1], the process by which a privileged elite extracts resources from their same Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2023.3270499 Date of current version: 7 July 2023. 6 0278-0097/23©2023 IEEE country and its citizens. However, once the dimensions of space for resource extraction are exhausted, all that is left is time. Then, if cultural appropriation is the process whereby a dominant in-group adopts elements from the culture of a disadvantaged outgroup, the process of futural appropriation enables an empowered older generation to dispossess a IEEE Technology and Society Magazinehttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-8904