The Importance of Solving the Innovation Famine

If we settle for sub-optimal economic growth, eventually that means our descendants live lives which are not as good as they could have been if we'd done better. And given enough time, it's the difference between being a United States and a Venezuela. So solving this problem really matters. We're up against physical limits in developing new forms of transport. If you want routine space travel, it's going to be very expensive. You know, like, science is hard. Maybe we're just at a bit of a sticking point. Once we break through, things are going to get easier again.

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