Grant Imahara Quotes

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

I believe AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

There’s not a single aspect of human life that doesn’t have the potential to be totally transformed by these technologies in the future.

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

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.

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

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.

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The future is here.

In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.

Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.