Entrepreneurs and technologists, be careful with just how hard you push your innovating. One day it’s a photo app, the next it’s a self-aware nanofactory that has the ability to self-replicate ad infinitum and supplant the human race.
For now, location-aware predictive search engines and wearable computers are all very cool, but in just a few generations all this technology could quickly turn against us. Take, for instance, the dangers outlined in Ross Anderson’s 8,000-word feature on existential threat, published in Aeon magazine and excerpted in a Kottke.org post headlined “Will technology help humans conquer the universe or kill us all?”
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