I'm glad the future doesn't need us: a critique of Joy's pessimistic futurism

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I'm glad the future doesn't need us: a critique of Joy's pessimistic futurism
by John G. Messerly
"In his well-known piece from Wired Magazine's April 2000 edition, "Why the future doesn't need us," Bill Joy argues that 21st century technologies - genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology (GNR) - will extinguish human beings as we now know them, a prospect he finds deeply disturbing. I find his arguments deeply flawed and will critique them in turn..."
http://www.transhumanism.com/articles_more.php?id=426_0_4_0_M

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