Ryan Bethencourt Quotes

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

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.

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

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.

We have created life.

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

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

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.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

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.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

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

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

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

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

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

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

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

I will continue my work to shepherd in this important societal change... In addition to working on AI myself, I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition.