Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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…

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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…

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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…

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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…

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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

- Erik Brynjolfsson

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

- Erik Brynjolfsson