Automation Revolution Quotes

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

Technology is really just an amplifier of our abilities. It builds on itself, letting us do more—and do it faster.

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate "comprehensivity.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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.

The future is now.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

The impending destruction of jobs due to automation and AI technologies is definitely increasing the need for - and speed at which - we have to implement big solutions, such as a universal basic income.