Quotes from the 2010 H+ Summit at Harvard - Rise of the Citizen-Scientist: The Democratization of Disruptive Change
"Living creatures aren’t only made of carbon: they are versatile and efficient carbon processors. The ease by which life can be programmed to do our bidding opens the door to new, altered carbon forms no longer bounded by the need simply to survive long enough to replicate and pass on genes. The days of natural selection, then, are drawing to a close, to be replaced by an evolution Darwin never saw coming, one directed, for better or worse, by human enterprise, creative expression, or folly." - Andrew Hessel, Co-Chair of Singularity University presents Altered Carbon: The Emerging Biological Diamond Age
"There is now a grand project comprising at least a hundred thousand scientists and engineers working in diverse ways to understand the best example we have of an intelligent process: the human brain. It is arguably the most important project in the history of the human-machine civilization. The goal of the project is to understand precisely how the human brain works, and then to use these revealed algorithms as a basis for creating even more intelligent machines." - Ray Kurzweil, The Power of Hierarchical Thinking
