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Technological stagnation: Why I came around

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I was skeptical at first, but have come to believe the stagnation hypothesis. Here's why

Technological stagnation: Why I came around The Roots of Progress About the blog • Writing • Speaking • Bibliography • Subscribe • Roots of Progress Institute Technological stagnation Why I came around by Jason Crawford · January 23, 2021 · 9 min read “We wanted flying cars , instead we got 140 characters,” says Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund , expressing a sort of jaded disappointment with technological progress. (The fact that the 140 characters have become 280, a 100% increase , does not seem to have impressed him.) Thiel, along with economists such as Tyler Cowen ( The Gre

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