Occupation: Author Birth: February 12, 1948
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author..
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon..
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work..
We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer ….
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiologica….
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound ….
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdate….
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our….
We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging proce….
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'..
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people..
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the ….
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about..
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any….
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020..
Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment..
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating ar….
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction..
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to r….
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned….
The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish..