3 December 2020 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 our body for the first time in history.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don’t behave very well when they are afraid.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson I absolutely don’t think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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 technology.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I’d be writing novels.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in ‘Amped’ about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we’re really going to deal with soon.
3 December 2020 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 disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
