Oxford Essential Quotations¶
Ratcliffe, S. (2016). Oxford Essential Quotations. Oxford University Press.
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Primes¶
- Amara's Law
- In technology forecasting — its defining substrate — it is the internet (short-term dot-com bust, long-term reorganization of commerce and media), electricity (short-term limited motor adoption, long-term re-engineering of the factory and the city), and AI, in whose forecasting Amara coined the law.
This sourceAttributes to Roy Amara the formulation 'We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run' (Amara's law); Amara was president of the Institute for the Future.
- In technology forecasting — its defining substrate — it is the internet (short-term dot-com bust, long-term reorganization of commerce and media), electricity (short-term limited motor adoption, long-term re-engineering of the factory and the city), and AI, in whose forecasting Amara coined the law.
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