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.