Martin Rees Quotes

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

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.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

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?

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

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

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.

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

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality.

I believe my hologram might be as good as me.