Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I'm also left wondering (and I'm not the only one) where the heck these magical new "product innovations" are going to come from, exactly, since scientists and engineers are not being stabled in any way that fosters innovation to begin with.

It's really more of a symptom of the problem than the source of the problem.

Real economic growth is heading toward zero.

Think of the period of time between 1800 and 2000 of being a kind of "technology bubble".