Driving Quote by William Gibson

We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have…

— William Gibson

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

— Al Gore

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of…

— Kevin Kelly

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some…

— Jason Silva

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to…

— Hyman Rickover

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

— Peter Sunde

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

— Henry Petroski

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that…

— Jonathon Keats

“Unfortunately, however, there is another serious catch. Theory dictates that such discoveries must occur at an increasingly accelerating pace; the time between successive innovations…

— Geoffrey West

There's just always going to be both positives and negatives to any evolution that we're a part of. And there's really no stopping the…

— Betty Gabriel

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows…

— Yann Martel

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite,…

— Robert Wright