Quotes About Technology

For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy.

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.

You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.