I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.
Tim SweeneyRead
AR is going to play such an infinite role in our lives that we have to establish clear ground rules respecting everyone's rights. That means open platform and open ecosystems and protections that put user privacy first.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of user privacy and rights in the development of augmented reality technologies.
Tim Sweeney's quote highlights the transformative potential of augmented reality (AR) in our daily lives, stressing the need for a framework that safeguards individual rights and privacy as AR becomes more integrated into society. He advocates for open platforms and ecosystems that prioritize user protections, underscoring the ethical considerations in the technological advancements shaping our future.
Themes
Augmented RealityPrivacyTechnologyUser RightsOpen Platform
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the implications of new technologies at a tech conference.
More from Tim Sweeney
All quotes →Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.
Tim SweeneyRead
Similar quotes
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
I. J. GoodRead
There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
Naval RavikantRead
The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.
Peter SingerRead
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
Nick HarkawayRead
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
Bill GatesRead
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George LucasRead