Book Titles

Average is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

By Tyler Cowen

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95373-9
Categories: Future, Intelligence, Technology

125 Quotes Found

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Average is Over:

…the rise of intelligent machines will benefit a lot of us greatly, but there can be little doubt that they will also put a few percent of us out of work for some time to come.

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The more that an endeavor requires inferences about the mind-states of others, the more that intelligent machines will require human aid. We humans do have our talents.

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Intelligent machines aren’t going to take over the entire economy all at once, but they will slowly revolutionize our economy.

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As the economic sector utilizes the new intelligent technologies, the notion of an effective man-machine team will radically change and become extremely diverse.

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Adult males are seceding from the workforce – or being kicked out – in frightening numbers.

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Most of the measured declines in employment participation have been coming from younger men, not early retirees.

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As we all know, women in American labor markets have become more education, more ambitious, and they have faced less discrimination, all to the better.

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For any given shortfall of spending, an economy can respond either robustly or in a very fragile manner.

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When the economy is booming, brute force labor is very much in demand.

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Among the young there is a growing tendency to postpone adulthood, in part because lucrative job opportunities do not beckon.

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