Eric Topol Quotes

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

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

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.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

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

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

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.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

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 just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

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

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

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

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

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.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.