From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 09:35:00 GMT
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)
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