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 to race with the machine.
Interpretation
Embrace technology as a tool for collaboration rather than competition.
Erik Brynjolfsson emphasizes the importance of adapting to technological advancements in order to achieve shared prosperity. Rather than resisting the progress of technology, we should leverage it to work alongside machines, enhancing our capabilities and improving societal outcomes.
In practice
In a speech about the future of work, this quote could inspire organizations to embrace automation.
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.
I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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