Howard Mumford Jones Quotes

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.

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.

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

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

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

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

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

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

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.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

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.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

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

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

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.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.