Self-Replication

Bill Joy says:                                                                                                                           see what James says

 
    Joy talks specifically about Self-Replication in these new GNR technologies.  He even makes references to sci-fi groups

like the Borg to foreshadow what could lie in our future.  Joy says that "because of the recent rapid and radical progress in

molecular electronics - where individual atoms and molecules replace lithographically drawn transistors... we should be

able to meet or exceed the Moore's law rate of progress for another 30 years.".(Joy, 243)  Joy beleives that by the year 2030

we will have the computing power to create intelligent machines that are "...a million times as powerful as the personal

computers of today...".(Joy, 243)  And who knows, he even says that this could happen a lot sooner than people expect.  What

he says next is that these “run-amok robots”(Joy, 243) could start creating themselves, and hence get rid of their dependance

on humans.
 
    Another side of GNR that Joy refers to self-replication in is Genetics.  “A Tale of Two Botanies” being in Joy’s

paper is no mistake.  He uses this article to show what Genetics can due unwatched.  How, even though good may be in mind

when creating a better strand of tomato, it could introduce something into nature that evolution wouldn’t have allowed, and

this can have horrible results.  Joy beleives that nature took thousands, or even millions of years of natural selection to get to

where we are now, and we are doing things in genetics that nature may have never intended, and can't handle.
 

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