Why The Future Doesn't Need Us

In Why The Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy the thesis is that if humans become too reliant on robots we will let them control out lives and our survival will actually depend on these intelligent machines. To avoid becoming obsolete humans need to not increase our reliance on machines to do our jobs. If we let them do everything for us out mere existence will depend on them doing our jobs. With robots doing our jobs who needs humans and there will be the elite few who tell the robots what needs to be done, everybody else will be eliminated. Institutions are contributing to this "inevitability" by playing the machines game. They let their jobs be taken by machines, the exact opposite of what needs to be done to continue our lives as we now know them.

Huxley would agree with Joy's article. This is because Huxley's fears that too many technological advances and the oversimplification of human existence creates a dystopian society, just like Joy. Joy's argument has a strong basis. It seams plausible but some of the greater details he goes into are just his speculation and fears playing their way into his article. Joy's literary devices he uses are Rhetoric language and extensive imagery, he depicts the picture exactly in your head and therefore helps to push his ideas to greater understanding. This article connects to BNW by Joy's depiction of a dystopian society with great technological advances and an oversimplification of the human life.