The article that caused such controversy was
"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.htmlCheryl
(Though it's apparently water under the bridge by now,
for an academic or spook to accuse a relatively harmless
technology leader like Bill Joy of "elitism" is kind of
like a pit viper or coral snake accusing a copperhead of
"being venomous.")
pa mondag, 17 Okt Owen skrev:
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> Bill finally gets some support:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/opinion/17kurzweiljoy.html?hp=>
> When Bill Joy wrote his first cautionary Wired article on possibly
> restricting certain dangerous scientific information, he was roundly
> attacked by the scientific community. Freedom of speech, elitism,
> and more was tossed glibly his way. Ray Kurzweil was, believe it or
> not, also one of those.
>
> It was so bad, that during the two day get-together at Stanford Dede
> and I attended, hosted by Douglas Hofstadter, on the advances in
> science (human/machine interaction I believe), the entire conference
> decided to change its focus to frying Bill for his horrid outlook.
>
> Now the world has turned a couple of times and he's finally getting
> heard. Sweet!
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