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The end of our 50-year stagnation | Tyler Cowen

The TED Interview

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Is There an Argument That the Computer Revolution Never Transformed Fully Into Productivity Numbers?

You've said that the computer revolution never translated fully into per cent productivity numbers. Is there an argument that that could be changing now as machine learning tools get more and more sophisticated, artificial intelligence is popping up everywhere? I think it's more than an argument. I would call it a fact. And i think, in relative terms, the costs of bad internet use, theyre actually falling. But how do you grade the soot of the trade off between, there's all this power coming,. Could there be too much power coming too fast?"

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