Diapositive PPT
- Especially hard to accept are his pronouncements
concerning hybrids with neural implants for digital
communication - illustrating social consequences of
this development by a nice cartoon.
- Also not acceptable to me is the pessimistic point of
view by Bill Joy - chief scientist at Sun - in his article
“Why the future doesn‘t need us“ assuming that
autonomous self reproducing machines will exterminate
- To my opinion one should take a more positive point of view
and reject the schematic derivation of horror scenarios in
case of insufficient information - similiar to Jaron Lanier,
inventor of Virtual Reality (e.g. “A Tale of Two Terrors“)
- However, in any case a critical reflection on consequences
of progress in IT technology is necessary.