Erwin McManus Quotes

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

The introduction of machinery is turning into idleness thousands, faster than new industries are founded

Massive increases in productivity due to the happy marriage if information technology and advanced manufacturing techniques are having a chilling, unprecedented effect on job creations.

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

Most of the jobs that are going from the United States are not going to other countries; they are going to machines.

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

The bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

The root of the worker’s resistance to technological change is the conflict between labor as a commodity and labor as a resource. Increased productivity imposes upon the worker a risk of obsolescence.

A new era of production has begun. It's principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs .... As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated [to their work] governmental measures—unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments.

The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of the horse in agricultural production.