34 Quotes by Erik Brynjolfsson

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

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, analyze and make sense of the data.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

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 robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.

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

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. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.

Technology is not destiny.