Seth Lloyd Quotes

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

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

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

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.

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

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

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.

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

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

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.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.