Technological Replacement Quotes

No president can force shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in search of cheaper labor to relocate to the United States (or those who have come back to choose expensive humans over cheaper robots).

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?'

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.