Purpose
The Purpose of our Page is to discuss the various themes and issues in Bill Joy's

Does the Future Need Us?

 

Their purpose is clearly destructive, the only thing these weapons accomplish is the mass destruction of life.

 

Have the possibilities of both positive and negative effects, though the negative effects could stem from positive intentions.  It would be like the anti-biotic syndrome: anti-biotics were prescribed to help cure illness, due to unseen over use more deadlier and resistant strains of bacteria have evolved. In regards to Nanotechnology, this idea is call the “gray goo syndrome”, where nano replicators created to serve a purpose run amuck and do something disastrous like destroying the bio-sphere. Another scenario is robots starting a revolution for themselves or people eating genetically engineered food that causes some unforeseen side effect.

NBC vs GNR

Robert Yates yrobert@clemson.edu

Tom Zubrzycki zubrzyt@clemson.edu

Mark Steward stewarm@clemson.edu