Quotes About Progress

Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.

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

Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.

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.

We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches that we have to scratch, creating new desires we've never had before. This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

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The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.

Question makers will be seen, properly, as the engines that generate the new fields, new industries, new brands, new possibilities, new continents that our restless species can explore. Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

My prediction: By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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