falun wrote:
] Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics,
] genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make
] humans an endangered species.
]
] a few months old but still interesting

This essay appeared in Wired several years ago. It resulted
in an outpouring of invective from the community directed towards Bill Joy.

Joy's basic premise is that humanity should collectively bury certain technologies because they might yield an apocalpyse. It is utter
nonsense. There is simply no way to keep these cats in the bag. The upside is huge; arguably much bigger than that of nuke technology which could've ended life on earth back in the 1960s.

RE: Why the future doesn't need us.