“...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance -… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Mark Liszewski, executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (Hershey, Pennsylvania), remarked: “Instead of Ford versus Chevy, it’s Apple versus Android.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Americans are in fact working much harder than before to postpone change, or to avoid it altogether, and that is true whether we’re talking… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“three-quarters of today’s youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are unfit to serve for one reason or another.” — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Once you're using sides and sauces you're on the right track and you're also following the general principles about how to eat well in… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“In other words, a culture of the casual is a culture of people who already have achieved something and who already can prove it.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
