Complexity and Being at the Mercy of Machines - http://www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/wacker.html
A response to the recent feature "Why the future doesn't need us" by Bill Joy, of Sun Microsystems. |
Special Focus on Bill Joy's Hi-Tech Warning - http://www.tecsoc.org/innovate/focusbilljoy.htm
An effort to continue the public dialogue started with computer scientist Bill Joy's apocalyptic vision. From the Center for the Study of Technology and Society in Washington, D.C. |
Wait a Nano Second... - http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment070500c.html
Glenn Reynolds argues that attempting to prevent technological catastrophes by restricting research will only backfire. |
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
By Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. "Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species." [Wired magazine] |