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 Why the future doesn't need us Bill Joy In this contribution to Wired Magazine, Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, cochair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research, and coauthor of The Java Language Specification, explains how our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - threaten to make humans an endangered species Life on other planets Thomas Gold An essay by Cornell Professor Emeritus Thomas Gold whose book The Deep Hot Biosphere was published in 1998 Sokal's Hoax Steven Weinberg A review of Alan Sokal's sham article in the cultural studies journal Social Text. From the New York Review of Books, Volume XLIII, No. 13, pp 11-15, August 8, 1996 How to Make Our Ideas Clear Charles S. Peirce From the January 1878 issue of Popular Science Monthly Cultural Carrying Capacity Garrett Hardin On population, standard of living, and human rights Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology DAEDALUS, or Science and the Future J. B. S. Haldane Written in 1923, this essay, by one of England's best known science writers, takes a terrifyingly optimistic view of the impact of science on society. Fortunately, its predictions have proved incorrect in nearly every particular ICARUS, or the Future of Science Bertrand Russell Responding to J.B.S. Haldane's 1923 essay on science and the future (see above), Russell took a more pessimistic view. Unfortunately, his predictions have proved correct in nearly every particular We invite your contribution |