Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations. Ramez Naam Read Quote
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth. Ramez Naam Read Quote
I’ve tried Oculus Rift; I’ve played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up. Ramez Naam Read Quote
Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. Ramez Naam Read Quote
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy – sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. Ramez Naam Read Quote
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they’re hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish – where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy – could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish. Ramez Naam Read Quote
We know the climate is changing. We don’t know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the realm of possibility. Ramez Naam Read Quote
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else – roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands. Ramez Naam Read Quote
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life. Ramez Naam Read Quote
In the end, I expect we’ll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters. Ramez Naam Read Quote
