Quotes About Automation

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

Computers will be the death of us all.

The computer is credited with the capacity to create unsuspected amounts of busywork. We are straight on our way towards an energy-obsessed low energy society in a world that worships work but has nothing for people to do.

The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.

Technological progress fostered industrial capitalism, but would eventually undermine it. Labor productivity in manufacturing industries rose much faster than in the rest of the economy. That meant that the same or higher quantity of steel, cars, and electronics could be produced with many fewer workers. Manufacturing's share of total employment began to decline steadily in all the advanced industrial countries sometime after the Second World War.

El reto del crecimiento agrava el reto democrático. Uno de los fenómenos económicos más importantes de nuestra época es un proceso al que he denominado «desindustrialización prematura».10 En parte debido a la automatización en los procesos de fabricación y en parte a la globalización, los países pobres se están quedando sin oportunidades de industrialización mucho antes que sus homólogos de Asia Oriental.

Last century, machines proved they could replace human backs. This century, new technologies are proving they can replace human left brains.

To survive in this age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing to earn a living and ask themselves three questions: 1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper? 2. Can a computer do it faster? 3. Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?

Through your actions here today—you have made humankind obsolete.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

We sent a robot to do a man's job.

Stay alert. Pay attention to your robotic staff. Watch for the following signs in the days and weeks before your robots run amok. Sudden lack of interest in menial labor. Unexplained disappearances. Unwillingness to be shut down. Repetitive stabbing movements. Constant talk of human killing.

As more and more people are automated out of the economy through robotics and self-driving cars and other technologies, there will be a way to create value for other human beings online. There will be a virtual economy for exchanging value, goods and services, entertainment experiences, and all that.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience stores, 24-hour libraries, 24-hour banks, 24-hour churches, 24-hour schools, 24-hour movie theaters, 24-hour bars and restaurants, and even 24-hour shopping centers.

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems.

I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then…?

a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.