David Autor Quotes
While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.
Autor, David. "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?" TED, Sept. 2016.
His 50 year prediction was a little too optimistic although a large percentage of the routine, and some non-routine, jobs had become automated especially in the automobile and other manufacturing arenas, and many other fields. But there were still some other jobs that were still being done without machines in 2014. Asimov was essentially right but a little early in his timing.
David H. Autor (born c. 1967) is an American economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative. Although Autor has contributed to a variety of fields in economics his research generally focuses on topics from labor economics.
