"My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation." — Harper Reed

Home Quotes Topics Authors Quote of the day Articles

Say thanks by supporting us!

Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisement to our visitors. Please consider supporting to us by disabling your ad blocker.

Customize

Watermark

Reset

Processing...

My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.

- Harper Reed

Author:

Harper Reed

Tags:

Related Quote

I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline.

When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot.

When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to think, 'OK, we can build something pretty big.'

This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle.

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

Showcase

Show all

My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.