Joe Lonsdale Quotes

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

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.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

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

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

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

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.