Artificial Quote by Bruce Mau

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see…

— Alan Ball

“One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems—on assemblages of people or technologies or both—and among our most profound…

— Atul Gawande

Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life,…

— John L. Casti

“In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the blueprints for…

— Max Tegmark

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

— Anonymous

“Yet despite the most powerful technologies we have today, all life forms we know of remain fundamentally limited by their biological hardware.”

— Max Tegmark

“When we decide for ourselves how we want to conduct our lives on the basis of what is actually important to us, we discover…

— Nancy Colier

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

— Harlan Ellison

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence -…

— Dan Simmons

We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And…

— Esther Dyson

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of…

— Richard Powers

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

— Chris Adami