John Landgraf Quotes

It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

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

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate "comprehensivity.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future.

The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.

My life project is humanizing technology: making technology more real and bringing it back into human interactions.

An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.

Cyborg is way heavier, way bigger than me.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.