Richard Powers Quotes

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

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

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.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world.

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

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.