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Emerging technology
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Emerging technologies.
Emerging technology debates
Many writers, including computer scientistBill Joy, have identified clusters of technologies that they consider critical to humanity's future. Joy warns that the technology could be used by elites for good or evil. They could use it as "good shepherds" for the rest of humanity or decide everyone else is superfluous and push for the mass extinction of those made unnecessary by technology.