Technology, infrastructure, and users mutually evolve over time, as illustrated by the automobile: both cars and drivers got better, and what people expected of and did with cars changed dramatically.

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Hal Varian

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you see this mutual evolution of the characteristics of the machinery the characteristics of the infrastructure the characteristics or the driver

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Hal Varian on Technology 07/28/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:03:47 PM

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