Quotes About Automation

All the modern inconveniences.

In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

The core cutter had powered up and accessed my feed to deliver a canned warning and a handy set of directions. Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking.

Humans never think to tell their bots things like, say, don't respond to random individuals wandering the outside of the station. Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.)

We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.

When industries fixate on automating jobs away, they paradoxically spoke demand for ghost work, shredding the social contract between employer and worker in their wake.

Robots and computers are taking people's jobs. Employers are taking people's weekends. Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?