Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)
by steaknsteak on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:44PM
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Yes, the Unabomber was a mathematician-gone-terrorist who had a manifesto of sorts published decrying industrialization and technological profress. His academic career was pretty short. There's a Wikipedia page if you want to read up on it.
Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)
by redthrow on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:15PM
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There's also a Netflix series called Manhunt: Unabomber which is pretty good.
Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)
by otisfunkmeyer on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:11PM
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I believe this article references the Unabomber. If it doesn't, then Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" definitely does.
It's a fascinating line of thought--though I obviously don't support the actions taken by its author.
To clarify a little further, Bill Joy in this essay refers to Kurzweil who refers to Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind." I became a technological utopian until reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo" later that year, as well as the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.
This ultimately led me on a sort of existential quest that led to the book "Waking Up in Time" by Peter Russell and then I began to have a much more spiritual orientation towards life and reality and now try to be as practical as possible while working towards a positive technological future.
Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)
by chongli on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:51PM
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If you want to read it, you can Google its title "Industrial Society and Its Future" [1].
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Industrial+Society+and+Its+F...
Can you explain what i'm missing? I'm young and non-american, maybe i'm missing context.