MT Topic 5: Why the Future does Not Need Us Flashcards
is an American computer scientist who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003
BILL JOY
essay that sets forth his deep concerns over the development of modern technologies
Why the future doesn’t need us (2000)
Are becoming to be very powerful that they can potentially bring about new classes of accidents, threats, and abuses
GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS (GNR)
Inherently more dangerous than 20th-century technologiesnuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (NBC)-which are expensive to build and require rare raw materials
GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS (GNR)
GNR technology requires only knowledge to create, the fear of such information falling into terrorist hands is also strong
SELF-REPLICATION
a disaster where a particular group of people is selectively eradicated due to genetic manipulation
White Plague
could be engineered to target and eradicate a select group of people; therefore, creating potentially disastrous societal collapses
nanotechnologies
The rate and direction of technological innovation over time will lead to a world where humans are unnecessary, and machines will be able to do without us
OVERDEPENDENCE TO MACHINES
Instead of interacting with them in the way we historically have, we will cross a threshold where we unwittingly relinquish the responsibility of making important decisions that we as a society need to make
POSSIBILITY OF AUTONOMOUS DECISION MAKING
Computers will eventually become more intelligent than humans
ROBOT REBELLIONS
someone who rejects new technologies and technophobic
NEO-LUDDITE
Who is the author of A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Techno futurist
John Seely Brown/ Paul Duguid (2001)
They will do our thinking for us
POSSIBILITY OF AUTONOMOUS DECISION MAKING
Joy’s worries focus on the transforming technologies of the ________
21st Century
encourages technology regulation and raises several reasons he believes it is necessary
Bill Joy
