Author: Moshe Vardi

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The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

- Moshe Vardi

The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

- Moshe Vardi

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

- Moshe Vardi

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

- Moshe Vardi

What people are now realizing is that this formula that technology destroys jobs and creates jobs, even if it's basically true, it's too simplistic.

What people are now realizing is that this formula that technology destroys jobs and creates jobs, even if it's basically true, it's too simplistic.

- Moshe Vardi

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

- Moshe Vardi

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

- Moshe Vardi

You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.

You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.

- Moshe Vardi

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

- Moshe Vardi

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