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Boom times are back in Silicon Valley. Office parks along Highway 101 are once again adorned with the insignia of hopeful start-ups. Rents are soaring, as is the demand for fancy vacation homes in resort towns like Lake Tahoe, a sign of fortunes being amassed. The Bay Area was the birthplace of the semiconductor industry and the computer and internet companies that have grown up in its wake. Its wizards provided many of the marvels that make the world feel futuristic, from touch-screen phones to the instantaneous searching of great libraries to the power to pilot a drone thousands of miles away. The revival in its business activity since 2010 suggests progress is motoring on.

So it may come as a surprise that some in Silicon Valley think the place is stagnant, and that the rate of innovation has been slackening for decades. Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, and the first outside investor in Facebook, says that innovation in America is “somewhere between dire straits and dead”. Engineers in all sorts of areas share similar feelings of disappointment. And a small but growing group of economists reckon the economic impact of the innovations of today may pale in comparison with those of the past.

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Across the board, innovations fueled by cheap processing power are taking off. Computers are beginning to understand natural language. People are controlling video games through body movement alone—a technology that may soon find application in much of the business world. Three-dimensional printing is capable of churning out an increasingly complex array of objects, and may soon move on to human tissues and other organic material.

An innovation pessimist could dismiss this as “jam tomorrow”. But the idea that technology-led growth must either continue unabated or steadily decline, rather than ebbing and flowing, is at odds with history. Chad Syverson of the University of Chicago points out that productivity growth during the age of electrification was lumpy. Growth was slow during a period of important electrical innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; then it surged.

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Stanu tunnannu i beddi tempi a Silicon Valley. I paccheggi ri l'ufficiu 101 su decorati attonna ccu l'insegna ri canteri speranzusi. L'affitti si stanu isannu, comu i dumanni p'e casi ri lussu ppe vacanzi nde villaggi comu Lake Tahoe, na futtuna ca s'accumula.

La Bay Arena era u postu unni nasciu l'industria ra semiconduzioni, e i fabbrichi re compiute e ri interne ca su so cumpari. I so pattruna criarunu tutti li maravigghi ca ficiru addivintari stu munnu a usu futuristicu: u talefunu cco schemmu ca si movi cco itu, o a ricecca stantania nda li ranni bibliotechi affinu a putenza ca sevvi ppi alimintari n droni ca sta assai chilomitri luntanu. U fattu ca sta ndustria s'arisbigghiau ndo 2010 significa ca u progressu sta ghiennu avanti.

Quindi, ci si maravigghi quannu si pensa ca a SIlicon Valley a situazioni aresta a stissa, e che l'avanzamentu s'arimuddau ca avi reci anni. Peter Thiel, u pattruni ri Paypal e u primu ca mmistiu i soddi supra a Facebuk, dici ca l'innovazioni in America è "a mmenza strada ntra u strittu e u mottu". Genti ca ni capisci sda sti campi penzunu a stissa cosa cu risentimentu. E macari gruppu nicu ma nascenti di economisti diciunu ca l'impattu economicu di l'innovazioni di sti ionna putissi macari annigghiliri su cunfruntata cu chidda ro passatu.


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Su si trasbodda u limiti, l'innovazioni allinchiu grazi a processi ri alimentazioni di putenzi ca costunu picca.
I compute accuminciunu a capiri u linguaggiu naturali. I pissuni controllunu i iochi cche movimenti ro coppu - ca è na tecchinologia ca putissi attruvari a so futtuna ndo munnu ro cummecciu. A stampanti ccu tri diminsioni ie capaci ri criari na ranni speci ri oggetti cumplessi, e o cchiù pprestu putissi opirari supra a peddi di l'umani e autri oggnai.

Na innovazioni pessimistica putissi fari ntreppetari chista comu a "n sfacelu". Però l'idea ca a cristica tecchinologica pò continuari o abbassarisi ri livellu, o anniari, non sicci pò cririri. Chad Syverson ri l'Univessità di Chicago rici ca a criscita ra produzioni mentri ca c'era l'età ri l'elettrificazioni fu pisanti. A criscita fu lenta duranti u periudu di l'impottanti innovazioni elettroniche ca ci fonu ntra u riciannovesimu e u vintesimu seculu, e appoi tunnau a cchianari.
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