William Nelson Joy (Bill Joy)

Born on November 8,1954, he is an American Computer Engineer. He co-founded Sun

Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as
chief scientist at the company until 2003.
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Is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of
the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these
programs.The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976, as the visual mode for a line editor
called ex that Joy had written with Chuck Haley.
 An article written by Bill Joy with Chief scientists in Sun microsystem in April 2000 issue of Wired
magazine. In the article, he argues that "Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic
engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species." The danger
posed by Science and technology unchecked by moral and ethical standards, in evaluating contemporary
human experience in the midst of rapidly expanding developments in science and technology.
William nelson joy explained that 21st century technologies - genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are
becoming very powerful that they can potentially bring about new classes of accidents, threats and
abuses. He further, warned that these dangers are even more pressing because they do not require large
facilities or even rare raw materials- knowledge alone will make them potentially harmful to humans.
 NANOTECHNOLOGY

ROBOTICS
"The experiences of the atomic scientists clearly show the need to take personal responsibility, the
danger that things will move too fast, and the way in which a process can take on a life of its own. We
can, as they did, create insurmountable problems in almost no time flat. We must do more thinking up
front if we are not to be similarly surprised and shocked by the consequences of our inventions."
Joy also voiced out his apprehension about the rapid increase of computer power. He was also
concerned that computers will eventually become more intelligent than humans, thus ushering societies
into dystopian visions, such as robot rebellions.
Imagining a future without humans is nearly synonymous to the end of world. Many choose not to
speculate about a future where humans case to exist while the world remains.
To illuminate his concern, Joy drew from Theodore Kaczynski's books, Umnabomber Manifesto, where
Kaczynski described that the unintended consequences of the design and use of technology are clearly
related to Murphy's law: saying that, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)- to combat malarial mosquitoes, for instance, only gave rise to
malarial parasites with multi-drug-resistant genes.
Since the publication of the article, Joy's arguments against 21st-century technologies have received
both criticisms and expression of shared concern. Critic's dismissed Joy's article for deliberately
presenting information in an imprecise manner that obscures the larger picture or state of things.
As a material, Joy's article tackles the unpleasant and uncomfortable possibilities that a senseless
approach to scientific and technological advancements may bring. In this case, it is preeminently
necessary that the scientific community, governments, and businesses engage in a discussion to
determine the safeguards of humans against the potential dangers of science and technology.