That is certainly the accusation levelled by American peers and Chinese rivals.In "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren", John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that growing wealth would bring ever more leisure.
Back when land was at the centre of the discipline his observations led him to the idea of a rent: an unearned windfall accruing to the owner of a scarce resource.Strained food supply would raise food prices, he reasoned, which would encourage landowners to bring ever more land under cultivation.
I'm sure you liked the idea of layers of carbon and hydrogen better than the metal oxides used to make quantum dots, but the latest QLEDs should last longer, and … I hate to bring ever such a minor point up, but metal oxides are toxic, right?
There is an ongoing trend among businesses to put more of their data into the cloud — and as part of that, to bring ever more smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices on to their networks to create and consume that data.
In the free market utopia, markets are supposed to allocate efficiently, self-correct, and bring ever greater prosperity to all, if only regulators would get out of the way of rational financial actors.
After steam, mass production and information technology, the so-called "fourth industrial revolution" will bring ever faster cycles of innovation, posing huge challenges to companies, workers, governments and societies alike.
