Quotes About Automation

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

The forces that run in American politics in our age are many and varied; they run in strange ways in our times of general education--they run in the meeting of white and black; in the nagging, daily concern for war and peace; in automation and unemployment. Yet one man must make them all clear enough for American people to vote and express their desire. He is the President.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

The social network will be the new production line.

There are neural networks that can build whole apps from scratch - so why are we teaching high school kids to code?

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is going to be.

The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons

Telautomatics

Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It's so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn't stand it. They had to hire almost a thousand workers to see if they could get one hundred to stay on.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

Can man-made machines learn and can they reproduce themselves? We shall try to show in this chapter that in fact they can learn and can reproduce themselves, and we shall give an account of the technique needed for both these activities.