Extropy Institute responds to Bill Joy: Embrace, Don't Relinquish the Future
From: Extropy Institute (exi-info@extropy.org)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 13:33:58 MDT
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Extropy
Institute
May 18, 2000
www.extropy.org
Contact: exi-info@extropy.org
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
EMBRACE, DON’T RELINQUISH, THE FUTURE
Bill Joy would have us give up our future. He says “no” to the
emerging technologies of genetic engineering, molecular nanotechnology,
and robotics and artificial intelligence. But relinquishing these
technologies will not promote our survival and is unethical, says Dr. Max
More, leading futurist philosopher and president of Extropy Institute.
“Holding back from developing the technologies targeted by Joy will not
only shift power into dangerous hands, it will mean an unforgivable
lassitude and complicity in the face of entropy and death.”
Joining Max More in rebutting Joy’s declaration in Wired is pioneering
technologist and visionary Ray Kurzweil, along with extropic artist
Natasha Vita-More, and a growing roster of transhumanist thinkers. The
extropian transhumanist response to Bill Joy is now on Extropy
Institute’s website:
www.extropy.org
Extropy Institute is a non-profit educational organization that
acts as a networking and information center for those seeking to foster
our continuing evolutionary advance by using technology to extend healthy
life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve social
systems.
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