A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.