"The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technolo…"

"If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fract…"

"One of the advantages of being in the futurism business is that by the time your readers are able to find fault with …"

"Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the…"

"The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are."

"Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it."

"It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, bu…"

"The speed and density of computation have been doubling every three years (at the beginning of the twentieth century)…"

"The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the na…"

"Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable."