Demis Roussos Quotes

Technology is power.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or be programmed. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

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

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

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

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

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.

I'm really excited by science and technology and the whole social media thing. I think it's fascinating. But at the same time I'm wary of bureaucratic systems and managers.

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.