This week's econ talk is with Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants. He argues that the third Industrial Revolution hasn't had much effect on productivity or at least its effects are over. But he disagrees with Robert Gordon who says we should essentially settle in for stagnation. And as always, we'll put links up to those essays and other topics we discussed at the page for this episode at econtalk.org.
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.