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Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down? | The Economist - 0 views

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  • There will be more innovation—but it will not change the way the world works in the way electricity, internal-combustion engines, plumbing, petrochemicals and the telephone have. Mr Cowen is more willing to imagine big technological gains ahead, but he thinks there are no more low-hanging fruit. Turning terabytes of genomic knowledge into medical benefit is a lot harder than discovering and mass producing antibiotics.
  • But Pierre Azoulay of MIT and Benjamin Jones of Northwestern University find that, though there are more people in research, they are doing less good. T
  • One factor in this may be the “burden of knowledge”: as ideas accumulate it takes ever longer for new thinkers to catch up with the frontier of their scientific or technical speciality. Mr Jones says that, from 1985 to 1997 alone, the typical “age at first innovation” rose by about one year.
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  • We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” A world where all can use Twitter but hardly any can commute by air is less impressive than the futures dreamed of in the past.
  • e notes that, for all its inhabitants’ Googling and Skypeing, America’s productivity performance since 2004 has been worse than that of the doldrums from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.
  • esearch by Susanto Basu of Boston College and John Fernald of the San Francisco Federal Reserve suggests that the lag between investments in information-and-communication technologies and improvements in productivity is between five and 15 years. The drop in productivity in 2004, on that reckoning, reflected a state of technology definitely pre-Google, and quite possibly pre-web.
  • nnovation is what people newly know how to do. Technology is what they are actually doing; and that is what matters to the economy.
  • n the end, the main risk to advanced economies may not be that the pace of innovation is too slow, but that institutions have become too rigid to accommodate truly revolutionary changes—which could be a lot more likely than flying cars.
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Mooresville Schools Handing Out Laptops Without Breaking Budget - News Story - WSOC Cha... - 0 views

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  • “I’ve seen a difference in what I do, especially on projects,”
  • old textbooks are stacked unused in the back of the room.
  • “I’m actually teaching less, and I’m learning more,” she said.
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  • During a recent lesson on William Shakespeare, she said students were able to use a variety of tools -- including online videos and maps -- to learn about the time period
  • “We can take a virtual field trip to the Globe Theater,” she said. “We can link up, using Skype, and talk with other classes in England.”
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    A success story from a public school district in NC. Check out the language that the teacher uses to describe the classroom now.
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