Are You Obsessed With It?

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i think it's much easier to focus on a technological change and the things we can count, like g d p. So i don't there's no index that most people would agree is the right way to think about it. And so perhaps not every single kind of discovery manifests here, but to overall overtime, it really should be visible. In thato, maybe ats drug discovery, maybe at some its semi conductor density,. maybe at some aa volume of wheat production, and so on.

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.