I love listening to Bill Joy, former chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. The first time I completely flipped my lid about his world views was when I read an April 2000 essay published in Wired magazine on Why the future doesn't need us. It spoke of how our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. It's the kind of thing Ray Kurzweil talks about everyday. But you kinda dismiss it as sci fi ruminations. Not when Bill Joy talks though. Which is why, I positively loved this interview with him in Fortune where he talks about the challenges that faces Sun, the Internet and Microsoft.