Quotes About Automation

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

What will happen if our labor is no longer needed? If jobs for warehouse workers, garbage collectors, doctors, lawyers, and journalists are displaced by technology?

between 2007 and 2012 the U.S. workforce gained 387,000 managers while losing almost two million clerical jobs.

While he had once been interested in Ayn Rand, he added, he increasingly viewed her laissez-faire capitalist worldview as old thinking. Now the ideas of Buckminster Fuller—pro-technology, with a deep faith that the coming of computerization and automation would result in an infinite abundance that would arrive shortly—were increasingly appealing to him.

Was your plant able to ship even one more product per day as a result of what happened in the department where you installed the robots?

Enjoy belonging to the machine, babes.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

once the cooking is complete, without you actually doing anything. In terms of the Instant Pot, once the cooking is complete and your pot has shifted to the "KEEP WARM" setting, you should understand that

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

We are rapidly approaching a world where everybody and everything will be connected and where all that connectivity will be bound together, acting with intelligence in a way that simplifies and improves people's lives.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.

I worry that if you see a row of self-checkouts, you think, 'That all used to be jobs and real people.'

Google is one of these products that I think is incredibly habit-forming, and it's the kind of product that shows this characteristic of something that we use with little or no conscious thought.

Driverless cars are a great thing.

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity.

I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.