Riding waves is a good analogy for what's going on with Markoff and similar people. They take the ideas that came out of transhumanism and cyberpunk futurism, a

Riding waves is a good analogy for what's going on with Markoff and similar people. They take the ideas that came out of transhumanism and cyberpunk futurism, and resell them as their own work. On the one hand it's probably a net-positive that these concepts remain a part of public discourse, but on the other hand it's a bit painful to watch these self-referential imposters get rich and famous for re-packaging ideas mined from subcultures, passing them off as revolutionary concepts they came up with on their own.