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Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the chief economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information.

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I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

Data Collection, Jobs, Kidding, Sexy, Statisticians

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.

Accessible, Book, Books, Html, Million, Technology

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

Data, Obesity, Problem, Used

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.

Important, Innovation, Mcafee, Technological, Tour, World

If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?

Happens, Think, Thinking, Train Stations, Work

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.

Clothes, Hands, Job, Jobs, Vacuum, Welcome

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?

Jobs, Joking, Sexy, Think, 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.

Google, India, People, Providing, Realize

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