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A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.
Daniel H. Wilson
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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
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Engineer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
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As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
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It's dangerous to be people-blind.
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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
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I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.
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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
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It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
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It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
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Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
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