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“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.”

Humans Matter Action Courses Individual Simple Depends Development Civilization Lonely Machines Complexity Humankind Exotic Interfaces Human Civilization

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.”

Men Running Development Machines Faster Application Browsers

Author:Bill Gates

“The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.”

Source: God and the New Physics

“When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.”

Might Order Sacrifice Development Machines Abstract Formal

Author:Le Corbusier

“It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.”

Ifs Men Years Looks Hard Reason Hands Lasts Moving Economy Happened Hard Work Development Hundred Machines Surprise Species Consumerism

Author:Peter Buffett

“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.”

Giving Courses Reading Vision Cases Development Research Machines Aim Maps Target Continuing Linked Missiles Cruise Radar Drones Moscow Deployment Leningrad

Author:Paul Virilio

“What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!”

Thinking Turns Strange Development Machines Loyal

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.”

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.”

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Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”

Men World Ends Modern Development Machines Species Prophet Dominant Destined Modern World Homo Sapiens Butlers

Author:Robert Aickman