Katherine Dunn Quotes

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.