Is the Nobo Prize Getting Old?

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In the early days, not so much. Didn't know wha they were doing, didn't have much of a brand name. As things get more advanced, and as we get richer, that a lot of the creativitys has been ina wrung out of the system. And i'm very drawn to that for a whole bunch of ideological proders i have,. But it does seemn, i think you're, i Think you're right.

Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the pace of innovation. Collison argues that despite enormous increases in the numbers of scientists and researchers, the pace of progress in scientific and technological understanding does not seem to be increasing accordingly. The conversation looks at the challenge of measuring innovation and whether the pace of innovation should be a matter of concern and if so, what might be done about it.