Quotes About Automation

Many people do not yet realize it, but the modern car is as much a contextual tool as a smart phone is—only a lot bigger.

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.

if Watson is going to replace any physicians, it will likely be at the low end of complexity—for

If you do a single thing—and especially if there is a lot of money in that single thing—you should put a 'Welcome, Robots!' doormat outside your office," wrote technology expert Farhad Manjoo in Slate. "They're coming for you.

Automation does not simply supplant human activity but rather changes it, often in ways unintended and unanticipated by the designers. —Automation experts Raja Parasuraman and Dietrich Manzey, 2010

There's a saying in aviation that the airplane of the future will no longer have two humans in the cockpit. Instead, there will be a pilot and a dog. The pilot will be there to keep the dog company. The dog will be there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls.

In a perverse way, we've been lucky that the current state of health IT is so woeful. It gives us the time we need to begin to sort out how to prevent such deskilling and disengagement before the computers really take over. Let's take advantage of this window before it is too late.

there is no guarantee that the time freed up by our newfound technological efficiencies will be made available for the human touch. A look at the modern history of industrial computerization would have one lay odds that this squishy stuff will be precisely what is sacrificed on the altar of productivity, particularly once every word, touch, and minute is measured, analyzed, and priced out.

Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: The mystery of mysteries, he wrote, is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.

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Tristan [Harris] believes that what we are seeing is 'the collective downgrading of humans and the upgrading of machines'. We are becoming less rational, less intelligent, less focused.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

However, other machines changed the world even more profoundly. These were the machines which made use of the forces of nature instead of manpower.

Uma campainha elétrica ressoou. A mulher pressionou um interruptor e a música cessou. "Acho que tenho de ver quem é", ela pensou, resignada, e pôs sua poltrona em movimento. A poltrona, assim como a música, era acionada por um mecanismo e deslizou com a mulher para o outro lado do quarto de onde provinha o som inoportuno da campainha.

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.

that's the beauty behind transparent technologies - they work diligently for us, sight unseen, as long as we continue to rely upon them

I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.

I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

Ultimate office automation — networked coffee machines.

A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.

In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.