Here is the lead story.
Here is the more in depth article.
However, I think our required reading is actually an article from April 2000. Its an infamous article by Bill Joy (founder of Sun Microsystems and all around smart guy) titled "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" and it is your required reading this week. Yes, I said it twice. Yes, its that important. Its long so give yourself some time for reading.
I haven't reread all of it, but I seem to recall that Bill is going to take a decidedly negative view of technological convergence. We're playing with powers we don't understand or have full control over. So long as human beings are making decisions, we'll be okay. Once we turn over decision making capabilities to the very entities we create, things get ugly. It is a very compelling, if negative, view of our future.
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