Ralph Merkle Quotes

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.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

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.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

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.

New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

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

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

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

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

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

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

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

The future is here.