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The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words

by Machines within 90 Years, Google Expert Claims,” Daily Mail (UK), June 19, 2013; Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near, p. 469. 89. Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired, April 2000. Chapter 4: The Proletarianization of the Middle Class 1. Crystal Galyean, “Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs,” U.S. History

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words

the History of Computing, 33: 3 (2011), 46–54. 26 See ongoing discussions on Kurzweil’s website <www.kurzweilai.net>. Also see Bill Joy, ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Wired (Apr. 2000). Kurzweil checks his own homework in ‘How My Predictions are Faring’, Oct. 2010 <http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/How-My-Predictions-Are

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://www.ft.com> (accessed 23 March 2015). PLoS ONE, 76: 6 (2012): doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038636 (accessed 27 March 2015). Joy, Bill, ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Wired (Apr. 2000). Kaku, Michio, The Future of the Mind (London: Allen Lane, 2014). Kaminska, Izabella, ‘More Work to Do on the Turing Test’, Financial

The Lights in the Tunnel

by Martin Ford · 28 May 2011 · 261pp · 10,785 words

reflect the new reality. *[ These issues are beyond the scope of this book. For a good introduction to this area, I’d recommend reading “Why the future doesn’t need us,” an article written by Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy for the April, 2000 issue of Wired Magazine. Web: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive

The Scientist as Rebel

by Freeman Dyson · 1 Jan 2006 · 332pp · 109,213 words

Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, a large and successful computer company, published an article in Wired magazine with the title “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” and the subtitle “Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.” It was a

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words

. 5 John Robb, ‘The Coming Urban Terror’, City Journal, Summer 2007. 6 John Leslie, ‘Powerless’, Wired 7: 4, 1999, 119–83. 7 Bill Joy, ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Wired 8: 4, 2000, 239. 8 Timothy Luke, ‘Everyday Technics as Extraordinary Threats: Urban Technostructures and Nonplaces in Terrorist Actions’, in Graham, ed., Cities, War

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words

’ ”; The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 121. 10. Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired, April 1, 2000, https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/. 11. Brad Turner, “Cooking Protestors Alive: The Excessive-Force Implications of the Active

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 96,803 words

. 222–228. 3 Leon Kass, Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (New York: Free Press, 1985), p. 35. 4 Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired 8 (2000): 238–246. 5 Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died,” Forbes ASAP, December 2, 1996. 6 Letter to Roger C. Weightman

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Scholastic Achievement?” Harvard Educational Review 39 (1969): 1–123. John Paul II. “Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.” October 22, 1996. Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired 8 (2000): 238–246. Joynson, Robert B. The Burt Affair. London: Routledge, 1989. Juengst, Eric, and Michael Fossel. “The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cells

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008

of threat because they could self-replicate; guns do not breed and shoot people on their own, but a rogue bioweapon could. His essay 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,' published in April 2000 in Wired magazine, called for a global, voluntary 'relinquishment' of these technologies. Greens and others of an apocalyptic frame of mind

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words

were behind the sudden shift away from molecular manufacturing. In 2000, Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy wrote an article for Wired magazine entitled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” In his article, Joy highlighted the possibly existential dangers associated with genetics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Drexler himself had discussed the possibility of out-of

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. Ibid. 19. K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (New York: Anchor Books, 1986, 1990), p. 173. 20. Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired, April 2000, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html. 21. “Nanotechnology: Drexler and Smalley Make the Case For and Against ‘Molecular

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automation of, 85–86, 105–106, 126–128 offshoring and, 115–121 See also knowledge-based jobs White House Council of Economic Advisors, 116 “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” (Joy), 243–244 Wiener, Norbert, 31–32, 33–34, 63 Wii video game console, 3–4 Wikipedia, 100, 137, 263 Wilczek, Frank, 229 Willow Garage

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer · 14 Apr 2013 · 351pp · 93,982 words

.0). As we see connections strengthen between humans and machines and between machines and machines, a question arises: Where is this journey taking us? WHY THE FUTURE DOESN’T NEED US One scenario that has been discussed in this context is the one that the movie The Matrix popularized: a future ruled by machines. A few

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years after the Matrix trilogy came out, Bill Joy, then chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, reminded us in his brilliant article “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” that rule by machines isn’t just a movie fiction: “Our most powerful twenty-first-century technologies are threatening to make humans an endangered species

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Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). 47. Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired 8, no. 4 (April 2000), www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html (accessed December 9, 2012). 48. Erik Rauch, “Productivity and the

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the field of the, 171 relinking leadership with the emerging, 110–115 seeing our, 115 turning yourself into a vehicle for the, 167–168 “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” 105 See also specific topics Future possibilities opening up to, 29 (see also Presencing) tension between current reality and, 152–153 Gaddafi, Muammar, 28 Galtung