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

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

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

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.