<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dailydigest@piqd.com">dailydigest@piqd.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:00 AM<br>Subject: Rapid technological progress vs. low productivity growth<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>









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<blockquote style="border-left-color:#444444;border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:2px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:21px;margin-left:20px;padding-left:10px">Returning to the industrial parallel, it was not the case that James Watt developed his steam engine and everyone said “great, this technology is clearly superior to everything else and we will therefore use it all across the economy”. Rather, it was used in a small number of contexts in which the economics (expensive labour, cheap energy) pushed business owners to experiment. Then, over time, engineers improved the technology and firms built up a wealth of knowledge about how to use it to make a buck. Then eventually the technology was so good that it began to be adopted in places where labour costs were not all that high.</blockquote>
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