IP: Promise And Peril By Ray Kurzweil

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Promise And Peril

By Ray Kurzweil Special To Interactive Week, By Ray Kurzweil Special To Interactive Week, Inter@ctive Week
October 22, 2000 6:57 PM ET

Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems and principal developer of the Java 
programming language, has recently taken up a personal mission to warn us 
of the impending dangers from the emergence of self-replicating 
technologies in the fields of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, which 
he aggregates under the label "GNR." Although his warnings are not entirely 
new, they have attracted considerable attention because of Joy's 
credibility as one of our leading technologists. It reminds me of the 
attention that George Soros, the currency arbitrager and arch capitalist, 
received when he made vaguely critical comments about the excesses of 
unrestrained capitalism.

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2643123,00.html