Rodney Brooks Quotes

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

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

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

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

The future is here.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

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.

The two things I'm most excited about are self-driving cars and speech. Speech doesn't sound like that much, but it's one of those technologies with the potential to change everything. Steve Jobs didn't invent the touch screen. He just made it work very well, and that's changed everything.

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.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

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

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

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 modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.