Paul Virilio Quotes

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

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.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.

The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.

Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late.

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Convergence of technology is important. One people, one mission, one nation, this will be possible then.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

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

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.