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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Tyler Cowen – The Great Stagnation</strong></span><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen">Tyler Cowen</a>,
professor of economics at George Mason University, gave everyone a
wake-up call from the sweet dream about future technologies. Cowen
asserts that the US is experiencing a stagnation in innovation that
wasn’t apparent even just a couple of generations ago (check out a
similar talk he presented at TEDxEast in May 2011 below). What’s more,
science is losing its luster among the general public for a variety of
reasons, among them the growing gap in income levels between scientists
and those in other, more lucrative fields such as finance. This has led
to more and more of the brain power moving away from the sciences at a
time when innovation and invention are desperately needed to get us past
the problems that plague humanity. All these factors put together mean a
bleak future for the US unless things change.</p>
<p><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>