James Surowiecki Quotes

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

As more and more people are automated out of the economy through robotics and self-driving cars and other technologies, there will be a way to create value for other human beings online. There will be a virtual economy for exchanging value, goods and services, entertainment experiences, and all that.

Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

People are going to use more and more AI. Acceleration is going to be the path forward for computing. These fundamental trends, I completely believe in them.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.

We believe that the future of health care is going to involve a mix of old and new methods of treatment.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.