Gail Collins Quotes

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

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

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

The future is here.

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Some people think technology has the answers.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

We live in an age of miracles.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.