Joy Response

Bill Joy’s main concern is that people will become too dependent on robots, that we will use all of the robot’s decisions. Also that we won’t be able to maintain the intelligence that it takes to keep up our society that the robots will have to do everything for us and if we try to turn them off it would be suicide. Also that if the elite are in control of the most advanced machines as they are today, they may try to get rid of humanity and only leave the elite to rule the world. Some techniques that Joy uses to set up his argument are, examples of books that people have written on the issue, his own experiences in technology, and the progress of weapons of mass destruction, and how nanotechnology can be harnessed with only knowledge. The most effective example I think that he gives is how real nanotechnology can be created so easily with knowledge. He says that will bombs and other chemical warfare you need large areas to work and rare materials, but with nanotechnology you can simply control it with knowledge. Also how a bomb is made to only blow up once, where with this type of robotics they multiply thousands of time and can be even more devastating. I think that these issues of the human population becoming more dependent on robots and technology are very close. You see almost every day that there are new machines that can think and act on other machines without any human help. Already in most factories machines have replaced the human work force. Soon the skills and techniques that we know will be lost and the only ones who know how to keep our society running will be the robots. Especially as newer and better technology is released every day we are only moving towards a technology dominant civilization, and they will control us. 11 years from now I think this issue won’t even be one because it will have already happened. At the rate we are moving everything will be done for us. There will be cars that drive for us, and there are already at airports strips that walk for you and you don’t have to move. We will in 11 years become lazy an ultimately reguire some kind of technological help to go through our day.

Sunday's Proposal- Egypt and Middle east conflict

• http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/?gclid=CO752_jh3acCFcbc4AodTxcP-g
• http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/566454/201103180903/Energy-Stocks-Oil-Prices-Rise-On-Middle-East-Conflict.htm
• This is important because it is affecting global oil prices which we depend on

Saturday's proposal- Penn state's budget cuts

• http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_17641112
• http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer_news/montco-legislator-addresses-board-on-state-budget-cuts/article_bb6efaab-23fd-5c19-9a99-e631419eb349.html
• http://www.wnep.com/wnep-harrisburg-state-university-hearing-budget-cuts,0,6318475.story
• This issue abou the state cutting funding to state schools is important because it affects everyone who goes to penn state. Students from PA will now maybe have to pay full tuition price, and like me who is out of state will have to pay even more money to go here.

Friday's proposal- natural resources

• http://www.cnas.org/naturalsecurity?gclid=CLS49Y_f3acCFeM85QodeHNC_w
• http://www.nrdc.org/
• One global issue is the amount of natural resources we have left in the world. This is important because electricity and most of our cars use natural resources as fuel.

Blog Entry #4

          I understand that he is trying to be sarcastic about eating the children, but it is just weird to read because he has thought up ideas to use every part of them. Some of the issues that he talks about that he uses satire in is the poverty in Ireland, the lack of jobs, and the lack of food available. I think the way he uses the satire undermines his point because it makes it seem like he is joking about the issues that Ireland is facing. These are clearly serious issue’s that he is making fun of, and I don’t think most people would respond in a positive way to this proposal. What he was saying was just so ridiculous that it was disturbing that he thought rich people should buy these poor children, and then when they get fat they should eat them. Also how you can use the skin of the children for boots or ladies gloves was weird, and made me think about referring this guy to a psychiatrist and not about the issues of the amount of poor people. I understand what satire is and know that it is supposed to be funny and shame people into changing, but I think he goes too far to the point where it doesn’t work anymore. The main purpose of this is to, like it is supposed to, shame people/Ireland to change and find a way to help the amount of poor children get food.

                The Middle Eastern protests are becoming a huge issue, and influencing the price on our oil. I have a simple plan to fix everything. We have the most nuclear weapons along with our allies, and we should just bomb the place and take over. No one would dare to challenge the U.S. to go to war. We can even use the dead bodies that are left over for fuel as well by burning them in a large furnace. This proposal would take care of two problems. The oil crisis would be over, and we would also eliminate all of the terrorist threats that there are. This way we would have all the oil that we would need to lower gas prices, and we wouldn’t have to wait for the protests to be over to get a large supplty.