Quotes About Progress

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

The thing I've always been most nerdy about is technology, in general.

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

I believe in spiritual technology.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.