Automation Disadvantages Quotes

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

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.

What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody.

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

I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.

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

The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.

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.'

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.

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'