Ben Nicholson Quotes

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.

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

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

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

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.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

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.

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.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

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

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

Machines are what enable the human race to move forward and up, and machines have always been physical,. Computers are the first devices that actually help the mind.

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

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.