Thomas Pynchon Quotes

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.

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

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.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

As the years went by and technology came in, I used a lot of technology.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

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.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

The Machine is the new Messiah. Machinery is accomplishing in the world what man has failed to do by preaching, propaganda, or the written word.

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

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

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