K. Eric Drexler Quotes

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

If we can put a probe on Mars or put online orders on your doorstep within hours, surely we can harness our unparalleled innovative spirit to prolong and better our lives while creating thousands of new jobs in the life sciences.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

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

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them.

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.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

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.

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

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

As we consider the implications of AI, there is a bright future ahead for countries that invest and participate.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Tech can be something that can be great for us. We don't need to fear it.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

As the years went by and technology came in, I used a lot of technology.