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  2. Leapfrogging - Wikipedia

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    A new technology may well seem initially inferior to older methods to those who have extensive experience with those older methods; yet that initially inferior technology may well have more potential for improvements and adaptation. When technological progress takes this form, economic leadership will tend to be the source of its own downfall.

  3. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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    The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period, including over 80% in New England, had stable institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal ...

  4. Science and technology in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most of them were young, well-qualified, educated professionals or skilled workers [16] – the intelligentsia – exacerbating human capital flight in the GDR to the benefit of Western countries, including the United States. Technology inflows from abroad have played an important role in the development of the United States, especially in the ...

  5. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States economy was mostly agricultural with increasingly industry throughout the first third of the 19th century. Most people lived on farms and produced much of what they consumed. A considerable percentage of the non-farm population was engaged in handling goods for export. The country was an exporter of agricultural products.

  6. A new global study shows the real reason the West is still ...

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    This year’s NRI offers us an opportunity to look deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of an economy’s approach to digital transformation and technological success.

  7. The Great Stagnation - Wikipedia

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    The main thesis is that economic growth has slowed in the United States and in other advanced economies, as a result of falling rates of innovation. [3] In Chapter 1, Cowen describes the three major forms of "low-hanging fruit": the ease of cultivating free and unused land, rapid invention from 1880 to 1940 which capitalized on the scientific breakthroughs of the 18th and 19th centuries and ...

  8. US data-center power use could nearly triple by 2028, DOE ...

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    U.S. data-center power demand could nearly triple in the next three years, and consume as much as 12% of the country's electricity, as the industry undergoes an artificial-intelligence ...

  9. Americans are shopping less. But the US economic engine is ...

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    The consumer appetite that kept the US economy afloat through the worst of the pandemic and beyond remains hearty — it’s just craving something new. Americans are shopping less. But the US ...