I remember an issue in The Economist in 2013 about it. There’s some argument among economists on the absence of productivity improvements, despite the buzz over AI and ICT; Erin Brynjolfsson argues that it takes some time for global pervasive technologies to have an impact (e.g.: electricity). However, the main point of Thiel & Weinstein is that we haven’t found new breakthroughs that are easy to profit from.
But it reminds me Cixin Liu’s Dark Forest context, where:
humankind stalled because Physics breakthroughs were prevented by the Sophon Barrier—even so, they built a utopian society thanks to cheap energy from fusion power.
My opinion (“epistemic status”): dunno.
I remember an issue in The Economist in 2013 about it. There’s some argument among economists on the absence of productivity improvements, despite the buzz over AI and ICT; Erin Brynjolfsson argues that it takes some time for global pervasive technologies to have an impact (e.g.: electricity). However, the main point of Thiel & Weinstein is that we haven’t found new breakthroughs that are easy to profit from.
But it reminds me Cixin Liu’s Dark Forest context, where:
humankind stalled because Physics breakthroughs were prevented by the Sophon Barrier—even so, they built a utopian society thanks to cheap energy from fusion power.
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