Quotes About Future

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

Look at us. Amps. We're morons smarter than Lucifer. Cripples stronger than gravity. A bunch of broke-ass motherfuckers stinking rich with potential. This is our army. Our people. Strong and hurt. We're the wounded supermen of tomorrow, Gray. It's time you got yourself healed. New world ain't gonna build itself. And the old world don't want to go without a fight.

Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and it makes you think, period. Claiming anything more than that is dicey. Grand visions of the future were more prevalent in the golden-age science fiction, but all fiction is a reflection of the current times. As science moves more quickly, the horizon of science fiction tends to recede closer to the present.

IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED Achilles' heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.… Can events be guided so that we may survive? VERNOR VINGE, 1993

I believe in the future. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

The future is coming faster than most people realize. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED Achilles' heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits. This effect is particularly evident when considering payoffs that will take longer than a generation to arrive—a phenomenon called intergenerational discounting

Odhiambo frowned. It seemed as if an opportunity for cooperation had just passed them by. Unfortunately, it was a chance that wouldn't come again.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.

if we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.

Podemos ejercer un impacto en el futuro del mundo ocupándonos debidamente de nuestros hijos y ofreciéndoles de manera intencionada los tipos de relación que valoramos y queremos que consideren normales. Preparar

Podemos comprender nuestro pasado, y si lo comprendemos, no regirá nuestro presente y nuestro futuro.

Cómo gobernemos los años de la adolescencia tiene un impacto directo en cómo viviremos el resto de nuestra vida.

What we can do is help our children make sense of their experiences so that those challenges will more likely be encoded in the brain consciously as "learning experiences," rather than unconscious associations or even traumas that limit them in the future.

While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events—for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment—planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.

Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future. Automatically. Because that's how their brains will have been wired.

We can impact the future of the world by caring well for our children and by being intentional in giving them the kinds of relationships that we value and that we want them to see as normal.

We don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don't think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.

The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions are comforting. They reduce the anxiety that we would experience if we allowed ourselves to fully acknowledge the uncertainties of existence.