Ernest Cline Quotes

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.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.

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

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

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

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

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

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.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

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

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.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

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 issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.