James Gleick Quotes

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Something else has happened with computers.

Computing is becoming universal.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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

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

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.