What's the World Going to Look Like in a Hundred Years?

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The case for growth remains extremely strong. We seem to be quite a bit more isolated. There's some disfunctionality about our society. And science and technology, i don'ttink solved those problems, and they might even make em worse. The caviats do not diminish its central importance. If we had been in 19 hundred, sy, you raised the question, what's the world going to lo like in a hundred years? It's a really good question.

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.