There has been a narrow cone of progress in computers, the Internet, and artificial intelligence, but if technology means producing more with less, economic measures should show dramatic progress—they don't. Millennials are not dramatically better off than their boomer parents, indicating broad-based technological stagnation

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Speaker

Peter Thiel

Evidence Quote

There has been a narrow cone of progress around computers, the Internet, and maybe now artificial intelligence. But if tech means producing more with less, then we should be seeing dramatic economic progress, we don't.

Source

Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern TechHoover Institution
Created: 8/11/2026, 8:04:11 AM

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