In 2000, Bill Joy, the chief scientist for Sun Microsystems, published his now-famous anti-technology manifesto entitled “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us” in Wired magazine. In it, he outlined technologies that he feared might spell the end of our species, major among which was nanotechnology. Although Ted Sargent does not mention Joy in his new book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives…
Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction writer whose latest novel is Mindscan (Tor, 2005).