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!
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
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