Bill Joy
In the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001 article titled "A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists", Bill Joy was criticized for having technological tunnel vision on his prediction, by failing to consider social factors. In Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near", he questioned the regulation of potentially dangerous technology, asking "Should we tell the millions of people afflicted with cancer and other devastating conditions that we are canceling the development of all bioengineered treatments because there is a risk that these same technologies may someday be used for malevolent purposes?".