Erik Brynjolfsson

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer. ”

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market. ”

Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everybody or even most people. It's possible that productivity can go up and the economic pie gets bigger, but the majority of people don't share in that gain. ”