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There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Artificial Artificial Intelligence Being Community Could Design Easier Eliminated Examples Fastest Friends Handle Intelligence Intelligence Community Involve Jobs Kinds Lots Our Physical Relatively Robots Routine Software Structured Tasks Them Those

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The heart of science is measurement.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Heart Measurement Science

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Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Because Before Complementary Drive Economic Economic Growth Electricity Engine Example Factory General Growth Innovations Like Most Purpose Redesign Steam Technologies Technology Yes

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Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Always Been Creating Destroying Jobs Technology

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G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Consumers Everybody How How Much Measure Metric Much Produced Recognize Should Value Welfare

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Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everybody or even most people. It's possible that productivity can go up and the economic pie gets bigger, but the majority of people don't share in that gain.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Benefit Benefits Bigger Economic Even Everybody Gain Gets Go Goes Law Majority Most People Pie Possible Productivity Progress Says Share Some Some People Technological Technological Progress Think Up

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Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Environment Gone

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Technology is not destiny.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Destiny Technology

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When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Abundance Almost Cost Delivered Digital Economics Goods Instantaneously Nearly Perfect Quality Welcome Zero

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Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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