David Droga Quotes

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

The future is now.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

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.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

I think technology, on one side, you can look at it; it's disrupted a lot of industries and businesses. On the other side, it's enabled us to do things that we never thought possible in being able to engage customers.

Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

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

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage.

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future.

Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.

Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It's been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will be a lifesaver.

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