Bill Joy
Bill Joy (born 1955) cofounded Sun Microsystems in 1982, and serves as chief scientist at the company.Bill Joy was the person largely responsible for the authorship of Berkeley UNIX, also known as BSD, from which springs many modern forms of UNIX, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Joy was also a primary figure in the development of the Java programming language. One of his most notable contributions was the vi editor.
He recently gained notoriety with his publication of an article in Wired, Why the future doesn't need us, in which he stated the neo-Luddite position that he was convinced by the growing advances in genetic engineering and nanotechnology that intelligent robots would replace humanity, at the very least in intellectual and societal dominance, in the relatively near future.
External links
- Bio from Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html)
- Why the future doesn't need us (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html), Wired, April 2000
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several onlookers, and went in to enquire if they knew more than we
so far as I remember, none of them had gone out on deck to make any
iceberg go by towering above the decks. He had called their attention
the game. We asked them the height of the berg and some said one
engineer travelling to America with a model carburetter (he had filled
the library steward how he should declare his patent)--said, "Well, I
and ninety feet." We accepted his estimate and made guesses as to what
just scraped the iceberg with a glancing blow on the starboard side,
all over. "I expect the iceberg has scratched off some of her new
painted up again." We laughed at his estimate of the captain's care
what had happened.
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see if any ice has come aboard: I would like some for this." Amid the
realistic, alas! for when he spoke the forward deck was covered with
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never saw any of the occupants of that smoking-room again: nearly all
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