MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee were on 60 Minutes yesterday discussing their book Race Against the Machine, which describes how computers (in particular, robots & digitally enabled technologies) are increasingly displacing...
Read More →This week’s issue of The Economist contains an article assessing recent claims by Tyler Cowen, Robert Gordon, Peter Thiel and others that we have entered an age of diminished innovation and declining economic prosperity. Here’s axcerpt...
Read More →Reviews “How the World Gets Ahead,” Matthew Rees, The Wall Street Journal The Coming Prosperity is filled with vivid profiles of men and women who have succeeded under harsh conditions…But The Coming Prosperity...
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Here’s how The Coming Prosperity begins… This is a book about the unparalleled possibilities of now.
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Richard Florida and I have been friends, and at times colleagues, since the late 1990s. He was insightful and articulate back then, as he is now. Back when Richard first started working on...
Read More →Review of Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think, New York: Free Press, 2012. The human community occupies a planet of finite resources. As population grows, people...
Read More →A recent renewal of public discussion regarding the virtues of industrial policy, juxtaposed against the ongoing Solyndra spectacle, prompted me the other day to revisit an Economist debate from last year between Josh Lerner and...
Read More →… If you haven’t checked out the Google Ngram yet, definitely read this New York Times article about it, then try it yourself … Endless explorations are possible. This one tells a pretty dramatic story of...
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