Chin Han Quotes

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Something else has happened with computers.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

We are living in a science fiction world.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

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.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.