Quotes About Automation

La technique se développe de façon indépendante, en dehors de tout contrôle humain.

Computers and the World of the Future,

That's one of the great things about the feed—that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit.

Today Shakey's original DNA can be found in everything from the Kiva warehouse robot and Google's autonomous car to Apple's Siri intelligent assistant.

Although driverless cars will displace millions of jobs, they will also save many lives. Today, decisions about implementing technologies are made largely on the basis of profitability and efficiency, but there is an obvious need for a new moral calculus. The devil, however, is in more than the details. As with nuclear weapons and nuclear power, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and robotics will have society-wide consequences, both intended and unintended, in the next decade.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

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.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

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it was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail.

Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own — or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live, most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

In his book Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen sees a future in which high earners are those who "get" computers and information technology. Low earners, he argues, will be those who don't—the less technologically adept who will be forced to work in jobs attending to the needs and wants of the high earners.

Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

El único problema sería, tal vez, que la alfarería se haga a corto plazo por computadora o por internet. O por robots. Que Dios (que no existe) nos asista».

Typinator, Typeit4me, or ActiveWords can type the current date on command. (Bit levers are covered in the "other essentials

Charlie Chaplin exploited frustrations and fears about rapidly growing automation to make people laugh. It's ironic that IBM once used his tramp character as an implied advertising testimonial for computers, because Chaplin's character didn't promote machines—he ridiculed them.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.