Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

To be sure, technology will change what we do. Tasks that are highly manual, routine, and predictable will be automated. But jobs are made up of many tasks. So the nature of existing jobs will change, and new careers will be created.

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

Technology has made our lives both more efficient and more demanding.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Weird how fast technology changes.

If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.

I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we're going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does.

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future.

That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.

I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment.