Planning to breakthrough the Great Stagnation and enable the next layers of the Future
Economist Tyler Cowen makes the case that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that we are now on a “technological plateau” that makes further growth challenging. There is a detailed review by Chuck Crane. The USA has eaten low hanging economic fruit since the 1700s. 1. Free land (Homestead Act, etc.) 2. Technological breakthroughs …