Entries Tagged as 'bill joy'

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley wrote the book Brave New World, and  The Enemies of Freedom
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Where Alex Jones claims the international bankers are conspiring with the UN to kill off 80% of the worlds population, Aldous Huxley states the expanding population in the world will be the cause of the loss of freedom.  Resources for power and even land  are becoming scares and putting pressure on society.

Where some people claim technology will give man kind freedom, Aldous states technology enables massive empires that never could have existed otherwise.  This applies to both corporations and government, taking on a monolithic state.  This relates to Bill Joy and Theodor Kaczynski’s fear that technology would be the end of mankind, not his liberator.

Audios states he believes people may be manipulated by modern day pharmacology.  People may be introduced to drugs that make them easier to manage–docile.

Audous states he believes TV in and of it’s self is benign, but can be used to implant ideas into peoples heads.  Audous states Hitler used every technology available to reinforce ideas, and spread propaganda amongst the German people.  Despite the fact they were very well educated, the German people were able to be lead astray by propaganda in news papers and radio programs that played ideas repeatedly.  With the expansion of thechnology, there are now more resources in which to spread propaganda: TV, radio, and news papers.

Was I wrong about Alex Jones

I watched Alex Jones End Game, and thought he was up in the night. The International Bankers conspiring with the UN to kill off 80% of the world’s population? Preposterous.

I had reasoned as in Freakonomics, population growth hurts the poor. Just as more money in circulation dilutes the value of the dollar (the Inflation Tax), the more people we have the cheaper the labor. This benefits the rich.  This is why the U.S. government won’t crack down on illegal immigration.

Then I read the creepiest tech article I have ever read in my life Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy.

Bill Joys credentials are pretty impressive:

Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, was cochair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research, and is coauthor of The Java Language Specification. His work on the Jini pervasive computing technology was featured in Wired 6.08.

According to Bill Joy what many of us would call “The Matrix” is theoretically going to happen.

There are many points covered in Bill Joy’s article. One of the most shocking excerpts from the article is what Bill Joy has to say about Theodore Kaczynski. That’s right–the Unabomber.

Kaczynski’s actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane. He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does not dismiss his argument; as difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasoning in this single passage. I felt compelled to confront it.

. . . (We’re lucky Kaczynski was a mathematician, not a molecular biologist.)

It appears Kaczynski was a mathematician trying to blow up scientists. Scientists he thought were going to bring an end to mankind as we know it. I never knew that’s what his motive was, or that he was a mathematician.

It reminds me of the Terminator where they are trying to take out the scientist before he can create the technology that’s going to enable them to create the terminator.

I still don’t believe Charles Darwin was part of a eugenics conspiracy

Again the article covers many points on men and science leading to the demise of mankind. Another issue Bill Joy looks at is nuclear weapons. Specifically the Manhattan Project and the Trinity Test.

Atomic Cafe film clip

The Day After Trinity film clip

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