Verb
make automatic or control or operate automatically
Source: WordNetMachines can automate a lot of things, but design is something humans do best. Tom Peters
My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate. Daniel H. Pink
The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Klaus Schwab
I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism. Nick Denton
If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995. Larry Page
When you automate an industry you modernize it when you automate a life you primitivize it. Eric Hoffer