From: jhmau (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 17:04:45 GMT
Hi Sam
> Hi Joe,
>
> > joe:as for your quotation I'm not familiar with (Bill Joy), but I think
> > teenage males have been creating molecules in their bedroom since the
> middle
> > of 1997.
>
> Bill Joy is the president (and founder and chief scientist) of Sun
> Microsystems. It's from a very interesting article he wrote in Wired
> magazine in April 2000, called "Why the future doesn't need us", about the
> dangers of unregulated technology (ie our cultural illusion that science
> isn't subject to value-driven oversight but must be left on its own). I
> would thoroughly recommend a read:
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
>
> If you do a google search you'll come across some criticisms, which are
also
> interesting, but I think his fundamental point is sound (and
MoQ-friendly).
> Hence my new post-script.
>
> Sam
>
> "Ask yourselves when are we going to see the first journal of bio-hacking
> oriented toward teenage males, so they can create molecules in their
> bedroom. Well, that journal came out in 1998. Be very afraid." (Bill Joy)
>
joe:thanks, Sam, for putting me straight about Bill Joy. My problem is
that I don't want to be more afraid, Armegeddon is sufficient, the sand
feels comfortable, Terminator 2 was very convincing, and my quote about
"life is wasted.." was very bad, and I am sorry for saying that. I know
enough to say "youth is wasted..." from experience, but I obviously have an
axe to grind.
Joe
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