Jack Garman Quotes

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.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.

Most of the jobs that are going from the United States are not going to other countries; they are going to machines.

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Technology is power.

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.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

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

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.