Franklin Foer Quotes

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

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

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

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

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

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

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

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

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

The future is now.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

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.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.