And here is the Wired essay, Why the future doesn’t need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species, by Bill Joy discussed in the above video. Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, was co-chair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research, and is co-author of The Java Language Specification. His work on the Jini pervasive computing technology was featured in Wired 6.08.

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