Nikola Tesla Quotes

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

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.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

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.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

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

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.