So it is no surprise that out of such an inventive and innocent world, Mr. Joy's dissent would seem thunderous. Any evil that grows out of technology will not arise through nefarious plotting, but unpredictably and incidentally, by letting Jini-like innovations out of the bottle, by increasing human possibility. One of the problems, in fact, might not be in technology itself but in the ways in which technological culture has already undercut the special status of the human. In studying computer simulations of life, some theorists have argued that sophisticated simulations are themselves primitive life forms. These sorts of speculations treat human nature as a sophisticated form of information processing.
Genetic engineering is just another form of reprogramming.
This view of human life grows directly out of the culture Wired celebrates. It does not encourage experimental restraint. Instead, it encourages speculation about how we can control our memes and genes, and encourages optimism that the possibilities are unlimited. The dangers lie not in our technology but in ourselves.