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Such technologies enable us to record and trace the lifecycle of products – even money itself – thereby determining precisely how they were used, how they were financed, and what impact they had on the environment.
Whereas Oettinger’s predecessor, Neelie Kroes, championed the potential of disruptive technologies to benefit consumers and boost economic growth, Oettinger is unashamedly corporatist in advancing German business interests.
It should boost investment in broadband infrastructure and digital technologies.
Policymaking in this area here would also need to account for the disruptive impact of new technologies on business models, supply chains, lifestyles, and even politics within China.
For decades, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to help countries take advantage of nuclear and related technologies to improve food security and advance agricultural development.
In parts of China, India, and Pakistan, for example, nuclear technologies have enabled significant reduction of soil erosion.
Such technologies also have critical medical uses.
But developing countries are not simply passive recipients of technologies created and shared by their developed partners.
By contrast, digitalization occurs when the adoption of digital technologies (and the accompanying mindset) leads to rapidly changing business models and value creation through network effects and new economies of scale.
Advanced technologies are uniting the material, digital, and biological worlds and creating innovations at a speed and scale unparalleled in human history.
Growth ultimately depends on supply-side factors – investment in and acquisition of new technologies – and the stock of technologies that can be adopted by poor countries does not disappear when advanced countries’ growth is sluggish.
When post-Soviet Russia opened itself to trade, its industrial enterprises lagged far behind cutting-edge technologies, especially in the dynamic information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
To win, it is vital not just to avoid being displaced by new technologies, but also to capitalize on the new opportunities they present.
For example, fossil-fuel subsidies should be reconsidered, because they discourage investment in energy-efficiency projects, and impede the development of renewable technologies.
More recently, new technologies developed in the US greatly increase the ability to extract oil and natural gas from underground formations.
Assuming that the poor use much less water, the monthly cost of conventional network technologies drops to $20 – still a significant outlay.
Developing countries that had finally acquired the needed skills and institutions applied advanced-country technologies locally, benefiting from plentiful, low-cost labor.
Moreover, today’s cutting-edge technologies – such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and bioengineering – are more complex than industrial machinery, and may be more difficult to copy.
Yet, as Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo show, the impact of such technologies – in particular, automation and AI – is more nuanced than that.
Of course, for robotics and AI to appear in developing-country value chains, including services that rely on frontier technologies, a minimum set of specific skills and infrastructure will be needed.
But deploying some new technologies and tasks in the emerging economies may turn out to be no more difficult or costly than in advanced countries.
For example, the new labor-displacing technologies could make feasible activities for which there had been insufficient skilled labor.
For that, developing countries will need to deploy new technologies relatively efficiently, taking into account the role of labor-market skills and regulations.
But new technologies should not be expected to stop convergence, even if, as is likely, they slow it down.
Despite the regime’s vast means of censorship, its embrace of new communications technologies like the Internet make it increasingly difficult for the party to maintain effective control over people’s views.
For starters, in the context of the modern era’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – which Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum defines as a fusion of technologies blending the physical, digital, and biological spheres – it is tempting to assess which technologies could be the next printing press.
The question today is how we can ensure that new technologies support constructive debate.
But the alternative is not just the hardening of divisions and estrangement of communities; it is widespread dehumanization, a tendency that current technologies seem to encourage.
While such technologies have brought important gains, they have also raised serious challenges – and left many segments of the population feeling vulnerable, anxious, and angry.
Costs are being pushed higher by the arrival of new medical technologies, aggressive marketing of pharmaceuticals directly to consumers, and the public's high hopes for medical miracles.
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