Quotes About Technology

technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.

Salander was up at 5:00 the next morning and hacked into the NSF Major Research Instrumentation supercomputer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology—she needed all the mathematical skills she could muster.

What had he said about machines?" Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.

If she broke a surgeon's fingers or delved into the theft of some advanced AI technology, you could be sure that she had not only thought it through to the last particle, she would also have a reason. Salander was not one to forget an injustice. She retaliated and she righted wrongs. Could her involvement in this story be connected to her own background? It was by no means inconceivable.

la «singularidad tecnológica», ese acontecimiento futuro en el que la inteligencia de los ordenadores sobrepasaría la nuestra.

So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?" "The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it'll be the end of human existence.

We risk being confronted by an explosion of intelligence, a technological singularity, as Vernor Vinge put it. Everything that happens after that lies beyond our event horizon.

From now on I want you to carry an Android phone with you, a Samsung or something. You must have one at the office?" "Yes, I think there are a couple." "Good. So go straight into Google Play and download the RedPhone app and also the Threema app for text messaging. We need a secure line of communication.

He was working on neural networks and digital quantum processes, that sort of thing." "I have no idea what you're talking about." "He was trying to get computers to think, to replicate the human brain.

IS SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT TO GO BLIND?" asks _Popular Science_ associate editor Gregory Mone, apparently worried that this may be a symptom of too much fondling of one's Singularity.

Now that we can clone humans they've removed the one pleasurable thing about having a child.

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.

These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

What Hath God Wrought.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.