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Good Morning Charles,
I actually don't disagree with Gordon. I believe the best times may be over and inventions exhausted. I highly recommend Simon Winchester's book, "The Men Who United the States". It's an excellent account of America's technical rise and "conquering" of the continent.

Right now from the perspective of the rest of the planet, America and the West are in decline across all spectrums. Sure, there will be some new innovations in technology and medicine. But, along with those will be great ethical problems to solve. I, for one don't really want to live to be 140 y/o. Seems very undemocratic.
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We're not even close to the end of life-changing technology. Less government spending on new technology might slow the progress, but it will happen regardless.
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The thing about game-changing advancements is that nobody could really see them coming ahead of time. While I see a steady course of refining and improving existent technology in our future, I can't really see anything radical on the horizon. But, of course, that doesn't mean a damned thing. Some guy 20 years from now could invent a working warp drive in his garage and change absolutely everything.
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When are people going to figure out that the morons claiming that nothing new can be invented are wrong every single time?

They have claimed this every decade, and are wrong every time. I do not even know how one comes to such a mind-bendingly stupid conclusion.
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If you think infrastructure means roads, maybe.

If you think infrastructure means 1 Gpbs fiber or 200 Mbps LTE broadband, then we're building that.

I've been reading histories of the telegraph. It fascinates me because it would seem that the world really changed once we could communicate across the globe at the speed of light. After that breakthrough, nothing really even comes close for changing the way humans operate. Cars? So big deal, we could go from 10 mph on horseback to 35 mph on a Model T. But sending messages, two way, and instant reporting of the news? You could say the real progress stopped in 1830.
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We won't be free until the last economist is hung with the guts of the last politician...
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There's some truth to the assertion that it's tough to top some of the technological triumphs of the previous couple centuries. Making it so we produce a surplus of food while having a small percentage of the population involved in food production is the biggest change in human society since the invention of agriculture.
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Hi Charles, just started reading Thomas Picetty's book. To the extent that his views are representative of yours, then you and I are mostly aligned. Perhaps we've simply been arguing all this time over definitions of terms.
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USA quit planting corn. Is shocked to see corn not growing.

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