We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analy….

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs..

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny..

Computers get better faster than anything else ever..

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and s….

Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of a….

The economy in the next 20 to 25 years is going to change more than they did in the last 20, 25 years. And that's because exponential trends are affe….

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation….

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn….

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, ….

Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through ….

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer..

It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If you're a radiologist maybe readin….

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

Going a little further into the future, we'll start literally connecting to machines. Some of my colleagues at MIT here - some of them are working on….

There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated….

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever before in his….

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996..

Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A ….

In the global millennium goals, we're on track to beat and eliminate severe poverty. So there are lots of positive trends. I think the world in 25 ye….

Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. The….