Hal Varian Professions : Economist Born : March 18, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Hal Varian I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s? Hal Varian sexy jobs thinking Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world. Hal Varian google india people We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity. Hal Varian obesity data problem I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. Hal Varian sexy jobs years How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work. Hal Varian jobs hands years It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books. Hal Varian uc-berkeley technology book If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station? Hal Varian train-stations happens thinking Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed. Hal Varian innovation important world Similar Authors Bryan Caplan economist Burton Malkiel economist Bruno Frey economist Brian Wesbury economist Branko Milanovic economist Andrew Samwick economist All Authors
