Thorsten Heins Quotes

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.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.

As I look forward in things like the Internet of Things, I am sure we will talk about video. There is a lot of disruption going on and a lot of new products being brought to market, products like Go90.

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.

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

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

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

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

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.

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

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

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.

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

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.