Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:31:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: ((Report)) RAVING ROBOTS, MAD MICROBES: TEKKIE SAYS BEWARE    


Greetings sa-cyborgs,

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote:
> Greetings technologists community,

I am very sorry for naming it wrong :-( -it should be "sa-cyborgs".

> [Hi, I thought..you might be interested in knowing, what Bill Joy, Hans
> Moravec and Ray Kurweil have discussed in the Symposium at Stanford
> University a few weeks back, on the theme..asking: "Will Spiritual
> Machines Replace Humanity by 2100?" -Details are below. Bill Joy has
> raised a serious issue of Ethics, in the midst of technological
> advancements and progresses. BTW, Bill Joy has also recently written an
> article in WIRED, on "Why the Future doesn't Need Us. Thank you. --Arun] 
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