Peter Maurer Quotes

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

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 just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

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

For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

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

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.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

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.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.'s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp. The first country that gives birth to these discoveries will change life as we know it.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

While the digital transformation of industries will be profound, we must keep in mind that it will have wider economic and social impact, too, as with previous revolutions driven by steam and coal, electricity and computers.