Written by Bill Joy, this article, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, focuses on the most powerful 21st century technology - robotics. The article speaks about the threat artificial intelligence creates towards the endangerment of the human race.

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us gives the reader an interpretation of the future in a very negative way. Bill Joy's representation presents how one day the robot race will take over once human technology has advanced so greatly, till a stage where robots have a mind of their own, and can make decisions for them self, and there will be no need for humans. From the title, it can easily be judged that the writer does not see a bright future for mankind.

In science fiction movies, you may have seen sentient (conscious) robots and never realized that they are an approaching possibility. The famous inventor of the first...