The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.
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* Read: The 50 greatest breakthroughs since the wheel * Read: Is ‘progress’ good for humanity? * a factor of two or three * concluded * Read: Small teams of scientists have fresher ideas * applied history * Patrick Collison * Twitter * Tyler Cowen * The Great Stagnation. * Email