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“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Transhumanists are building the Tower of Babel not to challenge God but to better understand the universe and human beings created in God’s image.”

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“The last thing we want is a nasty divorce between humans and superintelligent machines, for that would certainly spell the end of the human race.”

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“To quote computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland who said in 1965: "The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal."”

Sutherland's futuristic vision sounds just like Star Trek’s holodeck!
Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences, 2014

“Media manipulation is commonplace. For people who do not look outside their comfort zone, they will never learn the whole truth. If scientists had not challenged the status quo, we would not have enjoyed modern medicine and technological innovations today.”

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. … Instead of turning back, we must continue to innovate and push humanity towards the next point of no return. It is a good thing.”

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“While Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) helps prevent World War III, Total Information Awareness (TIA) offers insights into some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.”

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Not only that “every dog has its day”, but also that “every dog has its data” in the digital information age.”

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“The future is arriving sooner than we imagine.”

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Universities are good at producing engineers, doctors, lawyers, and such, but they often gloss over difficult moral and philosophical subjects such as the meaning of life, love, prejudice, war, and peace.”

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“One of the root causes of miscommunication is that people do not always mean what they say or do.”

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Human-machine symbiosis and artificial superintelligence may hold the key to the Holy Grail of human longevity and immortality.”

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Knowledge in and of itself is devoid of good and evil. Knowledge, however, does not necessarily make human beings wiser. In fact, knowledge without wisdom can be outright dangerous.”

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Is gene editing less ethical than human beings killing one another at wars and destroying wildlife on earth? A biomass study showed that humankind represents just 0.01% of all living things on the planet, and yet humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“If humans are to colonize another planet, we better have a powerful immune system to protect us from deadly new pathogens. H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds reminds us that the invading Martians overpowered humans but were killed by earthly pathogens to which they had no immunity.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“Faith healers have gotten one thing right: the human body can detect and defeat all types of diseases including cancer—the second leading cause of death in America. Our mind and body are closely connected. But faith healers have neglected one important point: the complex human brain—created in the image of God—is meant to invent new technologies including medical treatments for our mind and body.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“Super longevity motivates people to think very long-term, protect the environment, recycle, prevent wars and destructions, and do everything possible to achieve a better quality of life instead of leaving a big mess to the next generation to fix.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“Boredom often stems from the lack of desire to reinvent oneself. To become a Renaissance man or woman, for instance, can take an eternity. Understandably, not everyone wants to be a polymath, but there are so many great books to read, places to visit, ideas to share, new hobbies to discover, and charities to volunteer for – the bucket list is practically endless.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“The most meaningful toys are not materialistic at all. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died penniless, but his toys were his symphonies, concertos, operas, quartets, and sonatas that have delighted millions of people for hundreds of years and will continue to light up the world.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“Super longevity is not the same as immortality. Sometimes one has to sacrifice super longevity in order to achieve immortality.”

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019