"I love delight. The light's glorious and can be transcendent when it's the right kind," he says. "But I think the ability to get people to think and share ideas with others is just glorious" He adds that technology will eventually have impact on productivity of things in a very indirect way as they become established.
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.