Sigmund Freud 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.

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

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

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.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

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.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

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

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

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

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

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