This episode from The Big Story podcast presents a piece originally written by Joshua Quittner and published in Wired on October 1st, 1994, about the early Wild West of domain name registration. The core topic is the absence of regulatory frameworks governing who can claim corporate names as internet addresses during…
Worth it if you're interested in early internet history and how domain name governance evolved, or curious about how prescient 1990s tech journalism was.
This episode presents Bill Joy's seminal 2000 essay 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,' originally published in Wired magazine. The piece argues that three converging 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology—pose an existential threat to humanity by potentially rendering humans…
Worth it if you're interested in the intellectual history of AI safety concerns or want to revisit Joy's influential 2000 argument about technological existential risk.
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