Technological Uprising Quotes

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.