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What Has Google Ever Done for Us?ATHENS – Even Google’s fiercest critics use its
technologies
to research their fiery tirades against it or, more mundanely, to find their way around a foreign city.
But prolonged economic recession in developed countries, together with the rise of cheap shale gas, has undermined investment in clean
technologies.
Solar power can be produced on the required scale but is too expensive under current
technologies.
Improved
technologies
can offer a way out of this bind, but only if we think and act ahead.
There are two main kinds of
technologies
that look most promising.
The changeover of the world’s vehicles to hybrid and other efficient
technologies
will take decades, not years.
Beyond meeting its funding commitments, the international community needs to increase its investment in mobile and scalable education
technologies.
Governments, for their part, should work closely with companies that produce diagnostic tools and surveillance techniques, and support useful
technologies
as they are developed.
The leaps in machine intelligence, along with the connection of human beings around the world in a common digital network, will enable the development of new technologies, goods and services.
Improvements in computer and communications
technologies
have also enabled employers to offshore many routine tasks that machines cannot directly replace.
The more familiar road leads to wasteful overlap and lower investment in key technologies, leaving wider gaps than ever in Europe’s defense capability.
And still, after twenty years of preaching that private markets would pick up the slack, these impoverished communities are further away than ever from using improved seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale water management
technologies.
Villages currently trapped in hunger and subsistence agriculture would become commercial centers for food processing and exports, and even for rural industry and services supported by electrification, mobile phones, and other improved
technologies.
This is comparable to – or even larger than – the economic impact of past general-purpose technologies, such as steam power during the 1800s, industrial manufacturing in the 1900s, and information technology during the 2000s.
Innovative, leading-edge companies that fully adopt AI
technologies
could double their cash flow between now and 2030 – an outcome that would likely entail hiring many more workers.
These companies would leave in the dust those that are unwilling or unable to implement AI
technologies
at the same rate.
The proliferation of AI
technologies
will shift labor demand away from repetitive tasks that can more easily be automated or outsourced to platforms, toward socially or cognitively driven tasks.
The advanced economies have a clear advantage in adopting AI, because they are further along in the implementation of previous digital
technologies.
If that pain occurs against a backdrop of frustration with the unequal distribution of AI’s benefits, it may trigger a backlash against
technologies
that could otherwise produce a virtuous cycle of higher productivity, income growth, and employment-boosting demand.
An influential Moscow think tank called Niccolo M. advises the Kremlin on policies like offensive military communication
technologies
and hybrid warfare.
Alternative transport technologies, including electric cars, static batteries, and hybrid solutions, are already threatening to make oil less necessary.
Yet were we to take intergenerational equity seriously, the leading factor to consider is that future generations will have better
technologies
than what we have today.
That means accelerating the global transition to clean-energy
technologies
(including in transportation), improving the efficiency of energy production/consumption, reversing deforestation, improving land use, and promoting technological innovation to facilitate all of these processes.
Firms in both manufacturing and services are adopting new information
technologies
– today’s analog to small electric motors – to optimize supply chains and quality-management systems.
More often than not, they attribute the problem to “exogenous” factors such as global trade and new
technologies.
While policymakers have intensified their focus on trade and new technologies, they have missed an even more potent driver of inequality: the endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power, and regulatory capture.
Much of the existing research focuses on the US economy, where some studies have measured the growth of dominant firms’ market power through the steep upward trend in mark-up pricing; and others have examined the role of proliferating information
technologies
in the accumulation of “surplus wealth.”
People want clean energy, the
technologies
are available and profitable, and, with millions of people lacking access to reliable power, the emergence of renewable sources is a lifesaver.
The US could provide leadership by committing to spending 0.05% of its GDP exploring non-carbon-emitting energy
technologies
– wind, wave, or solar power – or capturing CO2 emissions from power plants.
Thanks to new financial
technologies
(fintech), consumers can shop seamlessly, migrants can send hard-earned money to their families cheaply, small businesses can access credit in minutes through Big Data-driven profiling, and savers can shape their own investment destinies.
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