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No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream
general9/2/2025

Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

In 2000, Bill Joy, the co-founder and chief scientist of the computer company Sun Microsystems, sounded an alarm about technology. In an article in Wired titled ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Joy wrote that we should ‘limit development of the tech... [27121 chars]