Re: nanotech?

Randy Isaac cited the following article.
>2) Bill Joy's original article published in Wired, April 2000:  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
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I begin to see clearly your complaint now about
"antibodies rushing in".

Frankly, I'd say we're more likely to become extinct
from our arrogance, selfishness and laziness long before
we'd fall prey to the servos of a stupid machine.

It's not that I don't believe that consciousness could
be put in a robot. I like Azimov's SF, but I think
he was over come by the wonders of technological
advancement in that period. They were all very new
and fresh, and no one really understood their limits.
We still have a very long way to go to get to a Hal
9000. It's not just a matter of more power, more
memory, etc. It's something more fundamental than
that.

One thing that is curiously ironic in a way: if there
will ever be such a thing as a robot with consciousness,
that robot would actually believe in a creator.

By Grace alone we proceed,
Wayne
Received on Tue Mar 29 11:33:44 2005