Gregory Benford Quotes

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Some people think technology has the answers.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

We are living in a science fiction world.

When I was a kid, I remember thinking, 'When we reach the year 2000, everyone will have jetpacks, and it'll be like 'The Jetsons,' and we'll fly everywhere!'

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

I'll say this: I'm not so sure 'The Jetsons' had it so wrong.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.