Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
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What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we…
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Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
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But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in…
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The heart of science is measurement.
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Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.
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Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash…
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Technology is not destiny.
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When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the…
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Computers get better faster than anything else ever.
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There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest.…
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Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.
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G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
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When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly…
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The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming…
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