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"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."
"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."
"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
"The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia."
"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."
"S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out."
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"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today."
"As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment."
"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."
"Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically."
"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."
"One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets."
"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level."
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