Bill Joy muses on the threat of human extinction posed by genetic engineering, artificial life, and nanotechnology.

Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil, and Ralph Merkle discussed the future implications of advanced technology at a packed forum at Stanford University.

Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, uses his personal and political capital to discuss the implications of advanced technologies such as genetic engineering, artifical life, and nanotechnology. He argues that these technologies give an individual the power to threaten the entire planet and therefore society should consider limits on some research. Highly recommended.

Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun microsystems, warns that advanced technology (nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and artificial life) could threaten human extinction within two generations.