I don't care if it has an impact on productivity anyway. It's already close to free. Poverty in the United States and in much of the world, unfortunately not all of it, is at the problem. And so those revolutions, they have played out. I think as economists, we're not just accountants. Part of our job is accounting. But a lot of what you're talking about is non-intangible, non-measurable.
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.