# Thinking Machines Must Grow Beyond Adolescence by Thomas A. Bass > "It is time for our thinking machines to grow out of an adolescence that has lasted now for sixty years." > **— Thomas A. Bass**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Thinking About Thinking Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26108) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Thomas A. Bass; 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/Machine Mediation|Machine Mediation]] - [[wiki/Machine Vision|Machine Vision]] - [[wiki/Corrective Intelligence|Corrective Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Cloud Intelligence|Cloud Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "It is time for our thinking machines to grow out of an adolescence that has lasted now for sixty years." — Thomas A. Bass, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-thomas-bass-thinking-machines-must-grow-beyond ```