# Desirable Technologies Will Eventually Be Built by Aubrey de Grey > "I could end with a simple "So let's not create aware machines"—but any possible technology that anyone thinks is desirable will eventually be developed, so it's not that simple." > **— Aubrey de Grey**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [When Is A Minion Not A Minion?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26066) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Aubrey de Grey; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Technology|Technology]] - [[wiki/Technological Evolution|Technological Evolution]] - [[wiki/Determinism|Determinism]] - [[wiki/Substrate Determinism|Substrate Determinism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I could end with a simple "So let's not create aware machines"—but any possible technology that anyone thinks is desirable will eventually be developed, so it's not that simple." — Aubrey de Grey, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-aubrey-grey-desirable-technologies-eventually-built ```