Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

We don't need to create the scar, because the technology itself will be outdated. Does the city then become a grand and glorious broom-pusher following behind cell companies cleaning up the problems?

We do know that we can set certain algorithms for machines to do certain things - now that may be a simple task. A factory robot that moves one object from here to there. That's a very simple top-down solution. But when we start creating machines that learn for themselves, that is a whole new area that we've never been in before.