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In the Glow

Do LLMs dream of electric sheep?

Fortunes and Funnel Cakes

What Patty Conklin created

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction writer whose latest novel is Mindscan (Tor, 2005).

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Size Matters

The science of the very small produces quite a small book April 2006
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