“ 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 p… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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 elevato… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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 di… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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… Daniel H. Wilson
“ In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. Daniel H. Wilson
“ Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid. Daniel H. Wilson
“ The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very s… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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. Daniel H. Wilson
“ The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an old… Daniel H. Wilson
“ I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. Daniel H. Wilson
“ The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question… Daniel H. Wilson
“ You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs. Daniel H. Wilson
“ The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolv… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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 i… Daniel H. Wilson
“ In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and pla… Daniel H. Wilson
“ As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted b… Daniel H. Wilson
“ Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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… Daniel H. Wilson
“ 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 te… Daniel H. Wilson
