Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

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

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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

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

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.

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

At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

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.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

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.

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

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

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.

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

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.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

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.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.