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We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.

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.

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 future is here.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

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

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.