Words matter. These are the best Moshe Vardi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everything that humans can do a machine can do.
Offshoring is like the winter. You don’t ask if it is good or bad – you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.
I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?
Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren’t working?
If I had my wish, I would wave a wand and make MOOCs disappear.
You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn’t do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.
It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation – I have done it myself.
Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.’
Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.
People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in the developed world has stagnated.
The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.
In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.
The question I want to put forward is, ‘Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?’
The bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses.
