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...Much of Joy's argument was based on Moore's Law, which holds that technological capabilities double every 18 months...
...Microsystems Chief Scientist Bill Joy, who designed Berkeley UNIX and the Java programming language, now says he is taking on a much more difficult project--saving humans from extinction...
...speech yesterday at the Arco Forum titled, "The Internet, Genetic Engineering and Robotics: Are Humans an Endangered Species?" Joy warned that unchecked technological advancement may bring with it unprecedented disasters...
...Soon, we may see knowledge-based weapons of mass destruction, more dangerous than any weapons of mass destruction we have ever seen before," Joy warned...
Throughout his speech, he quoted thinkers ranging from Albert Einstein to Aristotle to science fictions writers such as Isaac Asimov. Joy silenced the audience with graphic accounts of historic plagues and offered controversial ideas about the need to regulate technology...