First, do no wrong Since the article's publication, Joy has received thousands of emails. He's started to work with scientists, scholars and policy-makers at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and with a group at Cambridge University in England. There's no easy solution, he acknowledged. We believe that science is good. Knowledge is good.
Truth is good.
The free market is good. More democracy isn't an answer. The openness that many scientists and technologists have long pushed for, responsible for giant strides in technology, needs to be reined in, he believes. He's not sure how that will happen, and he knows he's alienating many in his community when he speaks for more control on information, not less. But for him, it's the only ethical response allowed.