Owen, A very interesting The Bill Joy TED talk qas very interesting particularly pertinent as Rivernetwork, our national river protection and restoration NGO discusses its future. I have some qustions about his reliance on market forces to regulate future decissions. Thanks Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 6:01 pm Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What to do with knowledge On Jan 2, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Bill Joy was ripped for his observation that new technologies are > almost > certain to be misused, and suggested the knowledge be > guarded .. i.e. > censored in some sense. > Why the future doesn't need us > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html > > His later talk was better received: > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bill_joy_muses_on_what_s_next.html > ... I went back and read/looked at the two links above. This lead me to collect the article, along with several responses, into a single file, attached. I'm struck how thoughtful he is, and his story about writing a book on the topic of the dangers of science and the proliferation of knowledge. It was during the writing of the book, in New York city, that 9/11 occurred. Note: From our earlier discussions, I decided not to attach the document in its .rtf version, nor in .doc -- not all of us can rea d those. So, because the Browser is the Computer, its in html. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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