Thinking about the perpetual motion machine of economic growth, what are the missing ingredients that make some of today’s amazing technologies fail to deliver faster economic growth?

Dear Silicon Valley: Forget flying cars, give us economic growth We have made enormous advances in computing technology. In Silicon Valley at Alphabet’s X labs, people are working on trans-formative technologies that include driver less cars, high-altitude balloons that deliver the Internet to remote regions of the world, self-navigating drones, and flying wind turbines tethered to a ground station. But despite today’s advances in technology, our economic growth rate has slowed.