The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

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