The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Play is just another version of work

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.