Cybernetics Quotes

Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

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

I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

With Cyborg, this is a winnable fight for me.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.