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Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.