Re: I'm glad the future doesn't need us: a critique of Joy's p essimistic fut...

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Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 03:19:44 MDT

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Good article!

J.G. Messerly stated:
<<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..."
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