Quotes About Future

Runaway biological or electronic evolution that led to a singularity event.

we'll avoid your biggest mistake, by making sure smart phones and social media never comes into being.

The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy. The movie took place many generations in the future, after which this reverse evolution had run its inevitable course, resulting in a society largely composed of morons.

The great English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Nightmarish Future "B

After the war, we should think about going into the shrimping business together.

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) "Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about." —Stephanie Garber

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) by Nick Bostrom, a Professor at Oxford.

don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics, we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it." ?—David Deutsch (Oxford physicist who laid the foundations for quantum computing)

The United States and China are locked in a cold tech war, and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.

It's realizing that you've lived your life not thinking about this moment. Pretending that, somehow, you'll never have to face up to the biggest moment of them all – when you finally know that there is no future possibility for change, for exploring other options, for even dreaming about another life. When you can't even retreat into your fantasy about doing it all differently … because you've run out of road.

And yet there she was. The possible felicitous future. The hope we all crave. Can we do this? Can we somehow find a way of making each other happy? And, in turn, remind ourselves: we are not alone in the dark. It's what we all want. Isn't it?

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument.

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter.

In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or be programmed. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.

But now, digital technology was to return the Nasdaq to its former glory and beyond.

future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

A cybersecurity expert can become well versed in technical details such as conducting penetration tests, using encryption tools, setting up firewalls, and much more—and still be unable to realistically assess their own skills at forecasting future events.

Control of the future is actually a (vain) attempt to control people, with the future as our instrument.