Tod Machover Technology Quotations

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.