David Gerrold Quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

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

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

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.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.