Quotes About Automation

The reason Donald Trump was elected was that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If you look at the voter data, it shows that the higher the level of concentration of manufacturing robots in a district, the more that district voted for Trump.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

The entire process is like ordering a pizza where once the customer lists out the requirement and then the system takes over," says Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.