Quotes About Automation

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress. Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

This confirmed my longheld suspicion that many people use spreadsheets as an alternative to thinking.

computers are now often an essential component of a good design.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

Experts tell us that the global economy will worsen while household appliances will get smarter. By the time your child is twenty-one years old and ready to enter the workforce, all of her job interviews will be conducted by Roombas.

People today work as hard, if not harder, than they did thirty years ago. The only difference is the quality of the work they perform. They no longer accomplish anything of value. They only service the machines.

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

I love technology.

Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

Electronicization will do to the middle class what mechanization has done to the working class, and it will do it much faster

South Korea has set a goal that 100 percent of households should have domestic robots by 2020.

domain in which HR tends to be the weakest is in understanding and applying technology to build HR

Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.