Ray Fisher Quotes

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

With Cyborg, this is a winnable fight for me.

Cyborg is way heavier, way bigger than me.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

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 wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

A man-like object

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

We are living in a science fiction world.