Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)

Kaczynski may not like Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, but something his teachers probably failed to point out is that even in that world one has a choice: between the Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy or the islands. (the choice is even info dumped, but I suppose most high school english teachers are either too shocked by the vision of a future in which there are no high school english teachers, or too smart to say anything a current or future school board member may not, by way of parallel construction, also find in any Cliff's Notes?)

The problem with Joy's program is that it relies on people arriving at consensus on doing something obviously rational; I submit that the events ca. 2020 demonstrate that this is Never Gonna Happen — or at least not gonna happen before (even assuming we're not in the mirror universe timeline) eugenics wars, WWIII, etc. etc.

Do we have any post-2020 updates from him on these themes?

> And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. —TDJP

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8G4VJ3OZgM

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