Cybernetic Organisms Quotes

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

I feel like maybe I'm going to be in with the robots because they'll see the show [Westworld] and think I'm one of them.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.