Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
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Oct 7, 2026
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
[upbeat music] This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April first, two thousand.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful twenty-first century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
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AI can make businesses faster.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April first, two thousand.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful twenty-first century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
AI can make businesses faster.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April 1st, 2000.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful 21st century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
speaker_1ADVERTISER
AI can make businesses faster.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
[upbeat music] This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April first, two thousand.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful twenty-first century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
speaker_1ADVERTISER
AI can make businesses faster.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
[upbeat music] This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April first, two thousand.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful twenty-first century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
speaker_1ADVERTISER
AI can make businesses faster.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
This is The Big Story from Wired.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
You're listening to Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, written by Bill Joy, originally published on April first, two thousand.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Our most powerful twenty-first century technologies, robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
AI can make businesses faster.
John HeilemannHOST
And, and the, the piece was a cover story, um, in Wired like in, in 1999 or 2000.
John HeilemannHOST
Uh, and it was called Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, um, a brilliant cover line.
John HeilemannHOST
Uh, and, and Bill is a brilliant guy and, and the piece got a lot of attention, but it was way ahead of his time, and a lot of people were able to dismiss it, just like they dismissed Ray Kurzweil back in 1999.
Nitasha TikuGUEST
Mm-hmm.