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China can continue its rapid growth and technological development through its own efforts.
We are likely to see African technological leapfrogging in government organization (e.g. the efficiency of the payments and settlements systems in Southern Africa), road networks, power grids, air travel, and other parts of the critical economic "plumbing" necessary for a modern economy and for rapid growth in Africa’s living standards.
To a large extent, this technological advance can be funded from international capital markets, rather than aid agencies or national governments.
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If the government is properly fulfilling its duty to prevent a demand-shortfall depression, technological progress in a market economy need not impoverish unskilled workers.
Karl Marx was one of the smartest and most dedicated theorists on this topic, and even he could not consistently show that technological progress necessarily impoverishes unskilled workers.
To do that, technological advances also have to make whatever is produced primarily by unskilled workers less useful.
Historically, there are relatively few cases in which technological progress, occurring within the context of a market economy, has directly impoverished unskilled workers.
For others, the problem is lower investment demand, caused partly by the fact that machines are now much cheaper and that technological progress has slowed since 1970.
Economists like Robert Gordon and Tyler Cowen argue that the technological breakthroughs of the past, including piped water, air conditioning, and commercial air travel, had a greater social impact – giving rise to the suburban lifestyle of cars and shopping malls, for example – than many of today’s advances.
This assessment bothers optimists like Joel Mokyr or Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who do not believe that technological progress has slowed.
The traditional capitalist model may have made Bill Gates rich, but his foundation now finances valuable technological breakthroughs in unprofitable ways.
To be sure, South Africa’s push to join the world’s technological leaders is not limited to space research.
“There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa,” says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change.
And ample spending on research and development, together with an unrelenting drive to be at the forefront of technological innovation, implies a brisk pace of innovation.
Rather, resistance to technological progress is usually rooted in the fear that disruption of the status quo might bring losses in employment, income, power, and identity.
Of course, the erection of barriers to technological innovation does not always start with the government.
People almost never reject technological progress out of sheer ignorance.
Avoiding barriers to technological progress requires understanding and addressing its downsides.
But if we recognize these losses and address them head-on, we can avoid a backlash against potentially beneficial technological innovations, including advances in robotics.
Even if the technological optimists are right, it is difficult to see how that will enable developing countries to sustain the kind of growth they experienced over the last couple of decades.
Human well-being, even survival, will depend on scientific evidence and technological know-how triumphing over shortsighted greed, political timidity, and the continuing stream of anti-scientific corporate propaganda.
Second, there are still many large technological uncertainties in moving to a low-carbon energy system.
We must plan investments in research and development to resolve these uncertainties and improve our technological options.
Nor are politicians very comfortable with a problem that requires large-scale public and private financing, highly coordinated action across many parts of the economy, and decision-making in the face of ongoing technological uncertainties.
Yet the idea continues to attract a motley crew of tech and labor leaders, libertarians, and progressives, who fear a coming age of mass technological unemployment.
Yet, by spurring the international community to impose crippling sanctions, Iran’s nuclear effort ended up undermining the country’s progress further, by impeding technological progress and military investment.
But the urgency of action is heightened by the fact that ongoing technological trends threaten to exacerbate communities’ existing problems.
First, in line with Moore’s Law, the pace of hardware productivity improvement is dramatically faster than it was at earlier stages of technological change.
The resulting “race to the bottom” reflects intensifying global competition for capital and technological knowhow to support local jobs and wages.
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