Quotes About Technology

The cloud is the reservoir that songs escape from.

We'll use technology to produce commodities, and we'll make

Many of the jobs that politicians are fighting to keep away from robots are jobs that no one wakes up in the morning really wanting to do. Robots will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can't do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined even needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are. They will let us focus on becoming more human than we were.

In the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures

The fears that technology makes us more uniform, more commoditized are incorrect. The more we are personalized, the easier it is for the filters because we become distinct, an actualized distinction they can reckon with.

processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products. Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.

Seeing our world through technology's eyes has, for me, illuminated its larger purpose. And recognizing what it wants has reduced much of my own conflict in deciding where to place myself in its embrace. This book is my report on what technology wants. My hope is that it will help others find their own way to optimize technology's blessings and minimize its costs.

This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots.

The internet could have been commercial rather than nonprofit, or a national system instead of international, or it could have been secret instead of public.

What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness.

As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free.

What is clearly happening inside this glass capsule is happening less clearly at a great scale on Earth in the closing years of this millennium. The realm of the born—all that is nature—and the realm of the made—all that is humanly constructed—are becoming one. Machines are becoming biological and the biological is becoming engineered. That's banking on some ancient

A platform is a foundation created by a firm that lets other firms build products and services upon it. It is neither market nor firm, but something new.

Given enough time, decentralized connected dumb things can become smarter than we think. Second

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet and that improbable event becomes just one of hundreds of extraordinary events that we'll see or hear about today. The

From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have "published" at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.

neither dystopia nor utopia is our destination. Rather, technology is taking us to protopia. More accurately, we have already arrived in protopia.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.

a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.

It's an upgrade arms race.

We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.

The power of self-replication is now found in four fields of high technology: geno, robo, info, and nano.