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Bill Joy's 'Future' essay recalled amid dot-com bubble peak

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Jim Grisanzio reflects on Bill Joy's influential 1998 essay, "Bill Joy's Future," which he first encountered during the peak of the dot-com bubble. Grisanzio recalls the intense optimism of the tech world at that time, working at Sun Microsystems in Cupertino, California, just before the market crash. He notes that Joy had been developing the essay since a 1998 conversation with Ray Kurzweil, and its publication in Wired in April 2000 coincided with the NASDAQ's peak and Sun's significant market valuation. AI

IMPACT Recalls a foundational essay on technological futures, offering historical context to current AI discussions.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal reflection and recollection of a past essay and its context, rather than a new development.

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Bill Joy's 'Future' essay recalled amid dot-com bubble peak

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    “Bill Joy’s Future: I first read Joy’s article at a coffee shop in Cupertino, California right across the street from Sun where I worked in # software systems m

    “Bill Joy’s Future: I first read Joy’s article at a coffee shop in Cupertino, California right across the street from Sun where I worked in # software systems marketing... The timing of the Joy article is also interesting. He said he had been working on the essay since his 1998 c…

    LINKS grisanzio.com/…/bill-joys-future

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