Quotes About Futurism

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Aspiring Asimovs!

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

I think of 'Shrapnel' as the anti-'Star Trek.'

Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?

The spirit of hope and optimism is always there, and that's what I think characterizes Star Trek' in such a big way.

La idea de crear máquinas pensantes que sean al menos tan listas como los animales, y quizá tan listas o más que nosotros, se hará una realidad si podemos superar el colapso de la ley de Moore y el problema del sentido común, quizá incluso a finales de este siglo.

we will look ahead to a time when we will be able to move beyond the solar system and explore the nearby stars. Again, this mission surpasses our current technology, but fifth wave technologies will make it possible: nanoships, laser sails, ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines.

I love science fiction - always have.

We will amuse and entertain ourselves into extinction.

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

What people queued the entire weekend for became, six months later, as interesting as the socks on their feet. What happened to the cognition-enhancing helmets, the speaking fridges with a sense of smell? Gone the way of the mouse pad, the Filofax, the electric carving knife, the fondue set. The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Arthur Clarke once remarked that the best technology was indistinguishable from magic.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?

Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.