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> He thought nuclear weapons, bioterrorism, and climate change were the biggest threats to humanity. There was some book (The Cuckoo's Egg?) where a computer s
by ken 8y ago
> He thought nuclear weapons, bioterrorism, and climate change were the biggest threats to humanity.
There was some book (The Cuckoo's Egg?) where a computer scientist and a biologist talk about the biggest threats to humanity. The computer scientist thought that biological viruses were the biggest threat, and the biologist thought that computer viruses were the biggest threat.
I've asked a few people about this, over the years, and the results are remarkably consistent. Everybody is much more scared of the other field where they're not an expert.