Past Quotes

 

The best instructor on how to use a machine is the machine itself. It knows what you are doing, what you have just done, and can even guess at what you are about to do. [...] Appliances of tomorrow should come with no printed instructions whatsoever (except <<This Side Up>>).

Nicholas Negroponte, "Being Digital", Vintage Books, 1996, p. 215

 

Marvin Minsky: We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!
Doug Englebart: You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?

Kevin Kelly, "Out of Control", Perseus Books, 1994, p. 34

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