Quotes About Evolution

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Equilibrium is dead

The value of experience is rising.

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We

Software eats everything.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

But the general trends of the products and services in 30 years are currently visible. Their basic forms are rooted in directions generated by emerging technologies now on their way to ubiquity. This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

It is no coincidence that 66 percent per year is the same as doubling every 18 months, which is the rate of Moore's Law. Five

So I now see upgrading as a type of hygiene: You do it regularly to keep your tech healthy.

As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office. Our screens had a "desktop" and "folders" and "files." They were hierarchically ordered, like much of the industrial age that the computer was overthrowing.

By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.

The end is almost always the beginning of something better.

Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

We are constantly surprised by things that have been happening for 20 years or longer. I

The Internet will be the CB radio of the '90s," he told me, a charge he later repeated to the press. Weiswasser summed up ABC's argument for ignoring the new medium: "You aren't going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the internet.

Looking back, I think the computer age did not really start until this moment, when computers merged with the telephone. Stand-alone computers were inadequate. All the enduring consequences of computation did not start until the early 1980s, that moment when computers married phones and melded into a robust hybrid. In

The greatest social consequence of the Darwinian revolution was the grudging acceptance by humans that humans were random descendants of monkeys, neither perfect nor engineered. The greatest social consequence of neo-biological civilization will be the grudging acceptance by humans that humans are the random ancestors of machines, and that as machines we can be engineered ourselves.

Death is the only teacher in evolution

The industrial age was driven by analog copies—exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies—exact and free.

A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.

we can get the most from the technologies when we "listen" to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

For the most part our legal system still runs on agrarian principles, where property is real. It has not caught up to the digital era. Not for lack of trying, but because it is difficult to sort out how ownership works in a realm where ownership is less important.

Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were innocent, we had no thoughts of the network at all.