The document presents a collection of quotes and insights from various influential figures regarding the future of technology and its impact on society. It emphasizes the idea that technological advancements are already shaping our lives and will continue to do so in unpredictable ways. Additionally, it reflects on the potential and challenges of innovations such as big data, augmented reality, and robotics.

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2. “The idea that the
future is
unpredictable is
undermined every
day by the ease with
which the past is
explained”
Daniel Kahneman - Nobel Laureate

3. “The Beatles have no future in show business”
Dick Rowe - Decca Records 1962

4. “Any
sufficiently
advanced
technology
is equivalent
to magic.”
Sir Arthur C. Clarke

5. “Under the right
circumstances,
groups are
remarkably
smart.
Smarter even
sometimes than
the smartest
people in them”
James Surowiecki Journalist

6. “We already live in the
future.
It’s not like we’re
waiting for something
to happen, it’s just a
matter of doing it.”
Bre Pettis - Makerbot CEO

7. “My vision when we
started Google 15 years
ago was that eventually
you wouldn’t have to have
a search query at all,
the information would just
come to you as you needed it.
This is the first form factor
that can deliver that”
Sergey Brin - Google Co-Founder

8. “Imagine a world in which every single
person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human
knowledge. That's what we're doing.”
Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia Co-Founder

9. “Within 5 to 10 years, most
computers will look and
feel just like these sheets
of printed colour paper.”
Roel Vertegaal - Human Media Lab Director

10. “We all live
every day in
virtual
environments,
defined by our
ideas.”
Michael Crichton - Author

11. “That’s the old
way, that’s the
old mantra: one
machine, one
human, one
mouse, one
screen. Well, that
doesn’t really cut
it anymore.”
John Underkoffler - Oblong CEO

12. “When you think of any aspect
of life or work, augmented
reality is completely going to
change how we do it.”
Ori Inbar - AR Pioneer

13. “Suddenly
you could
see my left
hand was
talking to my
brain again
and it was
magic”
Dennis Aabo Sørensen Clinical Study Volunteer

14. “At bottom, robotics is about us.
It’s the discipline of emulating
our lives, of wondering how we
work.”
Rod Grupen Director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics

15. “Look Ma!
No Hands!”
Everyone

16. “Big data is at the
foundation of all of the
megatrends that are
happening today, from
social to mobile to the
cloud to gaming.”
Chris Lynch - Partner at Atlas Venture

17. “Instead of trying to
simulate the adult mind,
why not rather try to
simulates a child's?
If this were subjected to
an appropriate course of
education, one would
obtain the adult brain”
Alan Turing - Computer Science Pioneer

18. “We went from mainframes
to desktops to laptops to
tablets and phones.
Everyone who thinks it will
stop is wrong, it just keeps
going down that curve,
driven by Moore's Law.”
Brian Krzanich - CEO, Intel

19. “A computer once beat me at chess,
but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Emo Phillips - Comedian

20. Thank YOU!
:)
Mike Darnell
mi@vimi.co
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