Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices computers which already can register and process huge amounts of information which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves as a species can process.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

In fact technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010 and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Because I believe that humans are computers I conjectured that computers like people can have left- and right-handed versions.