Daniel H. Wilson quotes

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. (Daniel H. Wilson)
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. View quote
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Memories fade but words hang around forever. View quote
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It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. View quote
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Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago. View quote
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid. View quote
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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots. View quote
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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. View quote
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There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe. View quote
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you. View quote
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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history. (Daniel H. Wilson)
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious. View quote
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates. View quote
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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. View quote
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Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. View quote
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No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become. View quote
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Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. View quote
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Demolition is a part of construction. View quote
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In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. View quote
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These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. View quote
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The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. (Daniel H. Wilson)
The true knowledge is notthe things, but in finding the connectionsthe things. View quote
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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands. View quote
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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. View quote
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. View quote
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