Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. — 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
“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously.… — 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… — 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
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
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
Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress… — 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
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever… — 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
“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
“The argument that technology cannot create ongoing structural unemployment, rather than just temporary spells of joblessness during recessions, rests on two pillars:… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The economy in the next 20 to 25 years is going to change more than they did in the last 20, 25… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“The most productive firms reinvented and reorganized decision rights, incentives systems, information flows, hiring systems, and other aspects of organizational capital to… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“there’s never been a worse time to be a worker with only ‘ordinary’ skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and… — 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
There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being… — 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
“there’s never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use… — 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
