Max Weber Quotes

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

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

The future is here.

I'm not a prophet. I'm the leader of Israel.

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

The future has both gritty and savage and clean and 'techno-hip.' I think it's a very realistic point of view.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

I think that, hundreds of years from now, if people invent a technology that we haven't heard of yet, maybe a computer could turn evil. But the future is so uncertain. I don't know what's going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don't worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don't worry about overpopulation on Mars.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

I think that every generation will say that technology has gone too far. That's probably always going to be the case. We can't even imagine what our children will have in their adult lives.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

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.

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

I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive.