Alissa Quart Quotes

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.

From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services.

Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks - they're all going to go and become web designers and programmers.

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.

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

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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

I've got less respect for our politicians, for instance, who are not worried or apparently don't even consider the fact that Apple and a lot of the other good technology companies are going to create an automatic car. Think of the jobs that's going to cause to be gone.

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

The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot.

Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?

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.

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.

Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage. This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be picked up autonomously, and those jobs will be gone.

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

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

We have come to the point where a new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year's time.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate "comprehensivity.

Every great invention takes a livelihood away from 50,000 men--& within ten years creates a livelihood for half a million.

Textile making is our basic domestic industry. Machine-produced fabrics take away our women’s work and harm their livelihood.