Jan C. Ting Quotes

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.

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

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

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

It is now possible to make far cheaper robotic devices, which in turn means that physical services provided by robotics will get substantially cheaper.

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.

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

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

Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The future is here.

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

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Some people think technology has the answers.

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

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

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.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.