Quotes About Technology

our safest bet is that the era of high-technology communication, in the beginning of which we are now immersed, will continue to develop and amplify. We may look forward to more numerous and more versatile communications satellites, laser beams replacing microwaves in space and providing millions of times as many audio and video channels, optical fibers carrying light replacing copper wires carrying electricity, and elaborate computerization making the world more responsive to our needs.

no human mind has created those equations directly. We have merely spent decades programming more powerful computers and they have devised and stored the equations, but, of course, we don't know if they are valid and have meaning. It depends entirely on how valid and meaningful the programming is in the first place.

Any accident involving a robot-driven car would set off another antirobot riot.

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

We are looking for extraterrestrial civilization that disposes of enough energy of a sufficiently sophisticated kind to be detectable over interstellar distances

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

Isaac Asimov

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

How small can you make the whole gadget?" "Hyper-relays can be had micro-size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wiring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ chips—Space, you've got a few hundred circuits there.

Didn't you ever have a robot go wrong on you? It's your anniversary, you know." And so help me she blushed. She said, "Robots have gone wrong on me. Heavens, how long it's been since I thought of it. Why, it was almost forty years ago. Certainly! 2021! And I was only thirty-eight. Oh, my—I'd rather not talk about it.

Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

Un robot no puede lastimar a la humanidad o, por falta de acción, permitir que la humanidad sufra daños. La considero ahora la ley Cero de la Robótica. La primera ley debería decir: Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano, o permitir, por inacción, que el ser humano sufra algún daño, a menos que tal acción viole la ley Cero de la Robótica.

Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano o, por su inacción, dejar que un ser humano sufra daño.

No? Then listen to this. It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted." Leebig moved spasmodically. "Misquoted? Fool! Madman! Why?" "To hide the fact," said Baley with complete composure, "that robots can commit murder.

Now then, young man, don't ask me to stop the Pumping. The economy and comfort of the entire planet depend on it. Tell me, instead, how to keep the Pumping from exploding the Sun.

NEMESIS THE GODS THEMSELVES FANTASTIC VOYAGE I, ASIMOV

No robot built, of any type, could possibly hurt a human being. That was the First Law of Robotics: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

robot = máquina + computadora.

un verdadero robot fue imposible antes de la invención de la computadora en los años cuarenta, y no fue práctico (en el sentido de ser lo suficientemente compacto y lo bastante económico para aplicarlo al uso cotidiano) hasta la invención del microchip en los años setenta.

After all, it was Hardin who said: 'A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

decimoctavo libro de la Ilíada de Homero, se indica que Hefesto, el dios griego, tiene como ayudante a «un par de sirvientas… hechas de oro exactamente como muchachas vivientes; tienen juicio en sus cabezas, pueden hablar y utilizan sus músculos, pueden girarse y moverse de izquierda a derecha así como hacer su trabajo…». Sin duda alguna, se trata de robots.

En los mitos griegos, estaba el titán, o Prometeo, que suministró el fuego (y por consiguiente tecnología) a los seres humanos y por ello fue terriblemente castigado por el enfurecido Zeus, que era el dios jefe.