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• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000HBL8JE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #247,939 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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In Aspen, Colorado, a conversation with Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems and credited as the innovative genius behind everything from Unix to Java to Jini. Then, Jeff Hawkings, a founder of Palm Computing, on his new company Handspring and the phenomenon of handheld devices. Finally, inventor Dean Kamen, president and owner of Deka Research and Development, on his latest invention, the IBOT, a wheelchair that can move on two of its four wheels and put its seated occupant at eye level with standing adults.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A review of the Joy and Kamen segments, November 5, 2007

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Bill Joy one of the founders of Sunsystems , and a major innovator in the world of information- technology tells Rose about his own work, and about his own reservations concerning accelerating developments in science and technology. Joy has urged restraint in regard to what is happening now in robotics, genetics, and nano- technology, fearful that mankind will get ahead of itself, and introduce processes which will ultimately be more destructive than helpful. For this warning Joy received a great deal of flak, he sees himself in good company with Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell who made similar warnings in their own time. One of his contentions is that human culture is not able to adjust to such rapid developments. Another danger is the possible misuses of the new technologies if they become democratically available. He rightly warns that there are crazy and evil people in the world who might for instance should they be able to manufacture a new kind of smallpox virus. Joy is a quite modest pleasant and of course extremely intelligent person. He also recognizes that there is very little chance his warning is going to be heeded by anyone, especially when there is so much money to be made from new technologies.
Dean Kamen is an inventor who speaks to Rose about a variety of inventions he has made. Many of these have medical application and have been of real use to humanity. Some like the helicopter he invented can perhaps be more seen as purely consumer products. A brilliant technical person of the kind who when he sees a problem sees an opportunity for inventing an answer.
An interesting show.