Quotes About Futurism

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

There is a simple rule that resolves all possible time travel paradoxes.83 Here it is: • Paradoxes do not happen.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters.

Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.

Through sheer force of will and brainpower, he'd once again turned science fiction into science fact, without much regard for the long-term consequences.

Even as a kid I remember seeing 'Minority Report' and just crying my eyes out. It was horrible what was happening to her. That was my mum!

It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

I'm the only candidate that will fund time-travel research.

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

Artificial intelligence... I've been following that since I was in high school.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction. The Killer Hook.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

I love science fiction.