Oren Etzioni Quotes

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

Everything we have learned in the last 15,000 years will be swept away in the coming years…. The next hundred years will produce more changes than have taken place in the last 100,000 years. Indeed, the last 100 years have produced more change than the last 100,000 years.

Baidu and Google are great companies, but there are a lot of things you can do outside them. Just as electricity and the Internet transformed the world, I think the rise of modern A.I. technology will create a lot of opportunities both for new startups and for incumbent companies to transform.

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.

Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.