Su suggermento di @HugoFiala, da NY Times, 25 Maggio 2015

 

Paul Krugman riflette sullo sviluppo tecnologico della rivoluzione informatica dell’era in cui viviamo e su come questo spesso non porti con sè la crescita produttiva che promette. Forse dovremmo rivedere le nostre aspettative.

Another possibility is that new technologies are more fun than fundamental. Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, famously remarked that we wanted flying cars but got 140 characters instead. And he’s not alone in suggesting that information technology that excites the Twittering classes may not be a big deal for the economy as a whole. […] A growing number of economists, looking at the data on productivity and incomes, are wondering if the technological revolution has been greatly overhyped — and some technologists share their concern.
What I’m pretty sure about, however, is that we ought to scale back the hype.

 

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