Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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

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

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

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

More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

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

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

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

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

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

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

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

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

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.

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

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.

I'm not a robot.

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.

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.

Technology just means information technology.

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.