On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html.
>
> Briefly, he argues that current advances in biotech,
> computers and robotics are creating such powerful
> instrumentalities that either we'll make machines smarter
> than ourselves, which will take over, or some nut will unleash
> a nanotech self-replicator or an engineered micro-organism
> to doom the human race.
It would have to compete with these already highly competitive nanotech
self-replicators we call 'bacteria'.
-Bram Cohen