Quotes About Futurism

I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

The future is now.

There are millions of sci-fi enthusiasts in the world, not just gamers.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.

For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon's surface, and that half the people's right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it's interesting again.

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla later called his daughters Luce and Elettricità in memory of what he saw at the Paris Exposition. (A third daughter was Elica—Propellor—after the modern machinery he also admired.)

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine