Tyler Cowan, somewhat akin to Robert Gordon, has argued that we're in the great stagnation as he calls it. The smartphone is done, the internet's there, and all these gains have happened. So my question is, again, somewhat unanswerable, what could we possibly imagine? Is yet to come in this revolution that will take it up another notch or two or three?"
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.