Joy Response

             Bill Joy’s primary concern in the article is that too many advances in technology could hurt the need and survival of the human race. The technological advances that he worries about in particular are the advances in robots and the advances in nanotechnology. Joy develops and shows his concerns and fears with definitions, scientific quotes, and personal stories with the rise and new advantage in technology. Joy uses definitions in a few different ways. The first way he uses definitions are to set up the basic arguments of his article by defining basic definitions such as Murphy’s Law, which is really Finagle’s law. The other way Joy uses definitions is to introduce different problems and situations that might be unfamiliar to the reader such as genetic engineering. Joy uses two different types of scientific quotes. One type of scientific quote is quotes from different scientific fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Amov. The other type of scientific quote is quotes from actual scientists who are also his friends or close associates such as David Gelernter, Danny Hillis, and Ray Kurzweil. Joys uses some personal stories to set up his background with technology and his concerns with it. Some of his personal stories are how he grew up interested in computers and science, and how people like his grandmother would be concern about anti-bodies because we might get too dependent on them. This problem is a little less relevant than it was when it was published in Wired magazine in 2000. The problems that Joy brings up are only a little less relevant because right now America and the world are not in the right economic climate to develop highly advance robots and nanotechnologies. My take on the problem is that Joy is a little too concern about the future and he may be worrying about problems that might not come up. I see future technology move a little differently from Joy’s perspective but I acknowledge his concerns. However, I see that future technological advances will just be in robotics instead of nanotechnologies because robotics will be able to do the same thing as nanotechnologies in the future.