"A growing body of research suggests that the longer you keep your rear end in your chair and your eyes glued to your screen, the less productive you may be."
"Besides a digital face, the MIT-developed MACH has speech- and face-recognition tools, allowing it to pick up on behavior, then advise people on how to correct awkward behavior."
"But the main cause for concern is that network science today means governments can glean remarkable insights from the vast amount of data they compile about their citizens' every move."
"What I found at MIT was something a little different. They were plenty smart, but they weren't particularly enamored with that fact. And more than being smart, they were tough."
“The exciting thing about these results is the second we turn on the light, the animal stops doing the abnormal thing. It’s immediate...It’s a ‘You don’t believe your eyes’ sort of thing."
"Cities, blanketed with networks and digital devices, are developing new forms of intelligence...The same is happening inside our cars, which are increasingly filled with different kinds of connected sensors."
“The idea behind 4-D printing is that you take multimaterial 3-D printing…and you add a new capability, which is transformation...This is like robotics without wires or motors.”
“Some people are by default more outgoing, some are more retiring, more quiet...We look at those default habit roles and I challenge them to move out of their comfort zone.”