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Dramatic decreases in the cost of low-carbon technologies also support an ambitious global transition toward renewable energy.
Many opportunities were created by new technologies, from the internal combustion engine to the micro-chip.
While cyber and nuclear technologies are vastly different, the process by which society learns to cope with a highly disruptive technology shows instructive similarities.
Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about contemporary technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
Ultimately, sustaining rapid growth requires continuing to move up the global value chain, by implementing further economic reforms and focusing on new technologies.
China’s leap into the digital age was facilitated by a combination of physical and digital technologies and new business models.
And this is happening so quickly that even the government now feels pressure to catch up, by adopting new technologies such as blockchain and AI.
Twenty-first century technologies will offer environmentally benign lifestyles and the resources to ease the plight and enhance the life chances of the world’s two billion poorest people.
The story that the Paris conference’s producers will ask viewers to believe relies on technologies that are no more effective than smoke and mirrors.
Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge amounts in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.
PIDA gives priority to energy (especially hydropower) projects to support mining operations and oil and gas pipelines, while sidelining renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
And the rich world does have a moral obligation to move first and faster – with policies, technologies, and finance – to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
One view, popular among economic historians, is that it takes time for the productivity-enhancing effects of new technologies to show up.
But this will be true only if new twenty-first-century technologies require significant amounts of labor to develop and install, compared to the jobs they disrupt and eliminate.
Setting the standards that will govern autonomous vehicles and related technologies is far more important than protecting old industries.
Whichever path emerging economies choose for addressing these challenges must also account for the fundamental shift driven by digital capital-intensive technologies.
While digital technologies have created new kinds of jobs in high-tech sectors and the sharing economy, among others, they have been reducing and dis-intermediating “routine” white- and blue-collar jobs.
The high fixed and low variable costs of these technologies mean that once robots become more cost-effective than human labor, the trend will not reverse, especially given that automated assembly can be located close to markets, rather than where labor is cheapest.
Recent changes in China should instead be regarded as part of a broader process, in which competing systems of governance are emerging to cope with complex, globally connected challenges, such as disruptive technologies, geopolitical rivalries, climate change, and demographic shifts.
But such efforts have so far focused on “hardware” modernization – allocating resources for the procurement and acquisition of selected advanced weapons technologies, systems, and platforms, and integrating them into existing organizational force structures and operational concepts.
The relevant “software” elements – the organizational, conceptual, and policy innovations needed to use the new technologies – have been largely neglected.
Given that US policy is to deny sensitive technologies to those outside these regimes, India’s admission would make all the difference in facilitating technology sharing.
This shift would seem to favor the advanced economies, whose industries are at the frontier in employing digital technologies in their products and operations.
Digital connections promote productivity growth; indeed, they can help developing economies move to the productivity frontier by exposing their business sectors to ideas, research, technologies, and best management and operational practices, and by building new channels to serve large global markets.
According to another recent MGI study, there are also large gender gaps in access to digital technologies around the world, and this lack of access impedes women’s economic and social empowerment.
Obama has emphasized the need for a “green recovery,” that is, one based on sustainable technologies, not merely on consumption spending.
All of these technologies will require public funding alongside private investment.
Recovery will require major shifts in trade imbalances, technologies, and public budgets.
Each should understand the basic directions of change that will be required at the national level and globally, and all nations must share in the deployment of new sustainable technologies and in the co-financing of global responsibilities, such as increased investments in African infrastructure.
The meteoric rise of digital technologies has changed the global landscape since 2000, when the MDGs were launched.
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