Why the future doesn't need usIn the article "Why the future doesn't need us", Bill Joy expresses powerful pessimism about the dangers of technology. which could be developed later in our century. The author examines how significant advances and development of new technologies pose a greater danger to humanity in the 21st century since the era of the Industrial Revolution. It uses the correlation between previous advances in nuclear, biological and chemical technologies and the ever-increasing reliance on genetics, nanotechnology and robotics (GNR) as a new vision for 21st century technology. Despite the perceived dangers of these technologies, Joy expresses quiet optimism about the ability of humans to use ethical principles to avoid these dangers. Joy analyzes how humanity gradually abandoned its earlier desires to advance the nuclear, biological, and chemical technologies of the 20th century. It describes how advances in weapons of mass destruction were a byproduct of the Cold War and the need for major military powers and governments to assert their ...