Daniel Susskind > Quotes

“the income from traditional capital is even more unevenly shared out across society than the income from salaries and wages. This fact is true ‘without exception’, notes Thomas Piketty, in all countries and at all times for which data is available.”
― Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

“the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend”
― Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

“When Sebastian Thrun taught his computer science class to 200 Stanford students, and then to 160,000 non-Stanford students online, the top Stanford student ranked a measly 413th. ‘My God,’ cried Thrun on seeing this, ‘for every great Stanford student, there’s 412 amazingly great, even better students in the world.’19”
― Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

“The temptation is to say that because machines cannot reason like us, they will never exercise judgment; because they cannot think like us, they will never exercise creativity; because they cannot feel like us, they will never be empathic. And all that may be right. But it fails to recognize that machines might still be able to carry out tasks that require empathy, judgment, or creativity when done by a human being—by doing them in some entirely other fashion.”
― Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

“Teachers cannot tailor their material to the specific needs of every student, so in fact the education provided tends to be ‘one size fits none’. This is particularly frustrating because tailored tuition is known to be very effective: an average student who receives one-to-one tuition will tend to outperform 98 per cent of ordinary students in a traditional classroom.”
― Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

“For it is only by shaping market incentives, and influencing the choices that people make in response to them, that any of these tools can be effective.”
― Daniel Susskind, Growth: A Reckoning