Why the future doesn't need us in the previous essay, Kurzweil paints an optimistic perspective on the potential of technology for transforming the world as we know it. In this essay, Bill Joy, Chief Scientist for Sun and one of the leaders of the Internet revolution, takes a darker view. While sharing Kurzweil's view of the trajectory we are on, Joy finds much more cause for concern. The horrors of The Matrix are only one of a range on potential nightmares ... - Joy, Bill (2003)