Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

Tech is all about building human connections.

We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

It's easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

I do find Twitter to be more negative than Instagram. Instagram is not so bad. I think it's because of the pictures and see a face where on Twitter people forget we are human beings.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.

I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

Sex times technology equals the future.