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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Immigration is vital to the future economic vitality of the United States.

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Rather than closing ourselves off to the world, we need to increase our domestic productivity and improve education…

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…the bigger a threat outsourcing becomes, the more important immigration is for keeping us competitive and for keeping other complementary jobs in place.

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…when immigration is rising as a share of employment in an economic sector, offshoring tends to be falling, and vice versa.

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…the geographic and institutional clustering of commercial talent is on the rise.

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Whether we will remain a middle class society or not depends firstly on how many people will prove to be effective working with intelligent machines.

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…very often the online methods [of learning] are much cheaper and also more flexible than the previous alternatives.

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For all the virtues of human, face-to-face instruction, it fares pretty miserably when it comes to economies of scale and scope.

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…research… on prodigies does indicate that indeed the smart are getting smarter and at younger ages too.

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The lessons are clear: Workable machine intelligence means that a good education no longer relies on living near a major city.

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