Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“axis, all of those straight-ish lines would look like the first graph above of Andy’s tribble family—horizontal most of the way, then… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Going a little further into the future, we'll start literally connecting to machines. Some of my colleagues at MIT here - some… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer.… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“creation of true machine intelligence and the connection of all humans via a common digital network, transforming the planet’s economics. Innovators” — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . .… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
For a long time, the humans are going to be better than the machines and so different parts of the job will… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“They write that “the impact of college is largely determined by individual effort and involvement in the academic, interpersonal, and extracurricular offerings… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Not only are the new technologies exponential, digital, and combinatorial, but most of the gains are still ahead of us. In the… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” —Albert A. Bartlett” — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“originated at the California research institute SRI International and was purchased by Apple in 2010, listened to what iPhone users were saying to it,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Montessori classrooms emphasize self-directed learning, hands-on engagement with a wide variety of materials (including plants and animals), and a largely unstructured school day. And… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“In fact, the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay has increased from 70 in 1990 to 300 in 2005, and much of… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“there’s never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Kodak made its founder, George Eastman, a rich man, but it also provided middle-class jobs for generations of people and created a substantial share… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“The many years that we all spend in schools learning skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic—as well as the additional learning that happens on… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Steven Pinker puts it, “The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
