Jason Silva Quotes

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

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?

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

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

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

We seek ways to co-opt technological advances for progressive purposes and therefore triumph over the bureaucratic mind..

Through writing, Homo sapiens then became the first species to preserve learning, enabling knowledge to grow, ultimately at an exponential pace. Collective learning over time then became the source of technological improvement, a process that could move much faster than evolution.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

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

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.