Gordon Brown starts his revolution of computers and technology in around 1960. He does not give a very good reason or criteria for how he's deciding when these three revolutions start or begin, says David Frum. The real networking of things did not really begin in earnest until the 90s,. There was some even interneting, but I know from having resided on the Internet very early in the 80s it was pretty lonely.
Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entered a prolonged period of stagnation. Then the conversation turns to the potential of robots to change the quality of our daily lives.