Comments on: Is growth over? Robert J. Gordon at TED2013 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/is-growth-over-robert-j-gordon-at-ted2013/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Fri, 24 May 2013 23:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What is the Big Progress Enigma? -- A report from TED WEEK #UCLAAndersonTED | TED & UCLA ANDERSON 2013TED & UCLA ANDERSON 2013 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/is-growth-over-robert-j-gordon-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32758 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:46:49 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70124#comment-32758 [...] you answered NO to these questions, you are in Professor Robert J. Gordon’s camp and with 14% of the TED attendees. If your answer is YES, you are one of the majority of [...]

]]> By: Are We Standing at the End of Times or Before an Intoxicating Dawn? | ReThink GP http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/is-growth-over-robert-j-gordon-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-32680 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:09:11 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70124#comment-32680 [...] Robert J. Gordon, an economist, depressed everyone with a “progress is over” sermon. His bottom line: The kinds of things we innovate and celebrate today, like apps and thinner phones, cannot compete with previous generations of innovations for their capacity to improve human living: the discovery of electric lights, for instance, or of refrigeration, elevators, cars and washing machines. Thus, genuine progress is leveling off and, with it, growth. [...]

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