Quotes About Evolution

These tools we love so much have burrowed under our skin like parasites...Making us smarter and stronger and always, always more dependent.

Through your actions here today—you have made humankind obsolete.

So now what?" I ask. She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she's gone to sleep. "I think this is just part of it," she says. "Civilisations fall. People keep going.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right?

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.… Can events be guided so that we may survive? VERNOR VINGE, 1993

We are a better species for having fought this war. CORMAC "BRIGHT BOY" WALLACE

The future is coming faster than most people realize. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

La gente debería saber que al comienzo el enemigo tenía la forma de objetos cotidianos: coches, edificios, teléfonos. Luego, cuando empezaron a diseñarse a sí mismos, los robots resultaban familiares pero al mismo tiempo deformes, como personas y animales de otro universo creados por otro dios.

The underlying logic of a living thing is its own survival.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

It's the one thing we do better than any other animal. We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us...The old fears the new, and the two threaten destroy each other. Our technology is what makes us strong. And it's what makes us dangerous.

Until 1600, the typical European home had a single room, and families would crowd around the fire most of the year to keep warm. The

Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated. Concert halls, dedicated to the performance of music, arose only in the last several centuries.

Even the word computer is outdated now that most people don't use their computer to compute anything at all—rather, it has become just like that big disorganized drawer everyone has in their kitchen, what in my family we called the junk drawer.

Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several things at once, something that it was not evolved to do.

Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now account for 98%.

The biggest change in dating between 2004 and 2014 was that one-third of all marriages in America began with online relationships, compared to a fraction of that in the decade before.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

if we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.

Physically and genetically, our brains may not have evolved much in the last forty thousand years—but our minds have. A baby born today would be much the same as a baby born tens of thousands of years ago. But if we were able to compare the intricate neural structure of an adult brain in today's modern society with that of an adult brain from forty thousand years ago, we'd find huge differences.

La corteza cerebral es la capa más externa del cerebro. También se le llama neocórtex o «nuevo cerebro mamífero» porque experimentó un gran desarrollo con la aparición de los primates y, sobre todo, con la aparición del ser humano.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.