Erik Brynjolfsson's Quotes

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

Erik Brynjolfsson

The heart of science is measurement.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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

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

Erik Brynjolfsson

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