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Beyond 2001: HAL's Legacy for the Enterprise Generation
By Frank Schirrmacher

FRANK SCHIRRMACHER became head of the arts and science department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the most influential German newspapers . He has been one of the publishers of FAZ since 1994.

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Comments by Kai Krause, Clifford Pickover, Stewart Brand, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling

 Beyond 2001: HAL's Legacy for the Enterprise Generation
By Frank Schirrmacher  


DALLAS. Doubtless, the visitor tells himself, doubtless Bill Joy's worries are nothing more than science fiction — the irrational fears of a run away engineer.

Which is why he was so pleased to find an answer to them — a rejoinder by Robert A. Freitas called "Some Limits to Global Ecophagy," which can be downloaded from the Internet. Freitas addresses the fear that nanorobots might one day replicate unrestricted and out of control and take over the planet.

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