Hugh Herr Quotes

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

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)

If we want it, we will have machines who will take care of us.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

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

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.