The follwing is from Bill Joy‘s 2000 article in Wired, “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us”

In his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns: “In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.”

Any thoughts / insights into why Dyson believes this?