California Quote by Annalee Newitz

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

— Jenna Wortham

I would love to have a robot at home.

— Hugh Jackman

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not…

— Buzz Aldrin

We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote…

— Kathleen Rubins

This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality…

— Neill Blomkamp

Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to…

— Martin Rees

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show…

— Terence McKenna

“underwater cities, and robot personal assistants. From the 1930s on, science fiction pulp magazines and comic books promised us that by the year 2000…

— James Kakalios

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you…

— Daniel H. Wilson

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you…

— Stephen Hawking

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…

— Jose Padilha