Hod Lipson Quotes

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.

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.

Companies are doing a good job at producing stuff. They are just doing it without people.

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

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.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

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

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

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.

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

Instruments, machines, looms will increasingly supplement the strength and skill of men; will augment at the same time the perfection and the precision of manufactures by lessening both the time and the labor needed to produce them

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

The Machine is the new Messiah. Machinery is accomplishing in the world what man has failed to do by preaching, propaganda, or the written word.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

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.

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.

We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.