“Hydrogen […], given enough time, turns into people.“ Edward Robert Harrison, 1995

„Forecasting is tough because, when you‘re exploring uncharted territory, you don‘t know how many mountains separate you from your destination. Typically, you see only the closest one, and need to climb it before you can discover your next obstacle.“ - Life 3.0, Max Tegmark (page 130)

“Humans will become as irrelevant as cockroaches” – Marshall Brain

"Ai is far more important than nukes, mark my words" – Elon Musk

"It scares the hell out of me" – Elon Musk

"We do not stand on a peak of intellegence" – Sam Harris

"It could be terrible, it could be great but one thing is for sure, we want control over it" – Elon Musk

"The train doesnt stop at humanville station" – Nick Bostrom

"Erst formen wir unsere werkzeuge, und dann formen unsere werkzeuge uns." Marshall McLuhan

"Die Diskussion ist nicht da, wo sie sein sollte!" – Prof. Niki Reichert (29. Nov 2018)

"user centered design has reached its end. the products are done. now we have to seriously deal with system design. that goes all the way to human operating systems: democratic institutions, cooperatives, open source projects …" – Prof. Daniel Utz (23. Nov 2018)

However, designers, engineers and marketeers only ever set up the affordances and suggest a use case. The true impact of a technology is, more often than not, defined by those who use it. – Anab Jain (https://blog.usejournal.com/tackling-the-ethical-challenges-of-slippery-technology-94500e723d34)

“The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble.” - https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/09/stephen-hawking-ai-reddit-ama/

It's not our Universe giving meaning to conscious beings, but conscious beings giving meaning to our Universe – Max Tegmark, Life 3.0 (In regards to the meaning of life)

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom – Isaac Asimov

The future doesn't seem so far away anymore when you can pick it up off the self - Extrapolation Factory Operator's Manual (Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken)