Seven Theses on Technology and the US Economy

Over the past five years, including while writing The Innovation Delusion with Andy Russell, I have been reading a number of works that paint a similar picture of technology and the economy in the United States. Yet often they aren’t in conversation together, I decided to write this post, structured as seven interrelated theses, synthesizing the picture as I see it today with the hope that it will be useful to others.

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