Life expectancy rising in Europe, but persisting gap of 8 years across EU countries @EU_Health http://t.co/dA1JLRDuqY pic.twitter.com/zWWsWJdYkL
— OECD Social (@OECD_Social) December 3, 2014
Recent life expectancy improvements across Europe
13 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics, technological progress Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Will robots take my job as a blogger?
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, technological progress Tags: blogging, creative destruction, mechanisation, skill biased technical change, technological unemployment

It will be a slow train coming before they invent an angry paranoid blogger with every possible political view, conspiracy theory, taste in movies and humour, passionate scepticism and distain for anti-intellectualism depending on which menu button you click.
Douglas Adams on new technologies
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, technological progress, TV shows Tags: creative destruction, Douglas Adams, innovation, technology diffusion
Almost every major patent concept from the 1930s was in chemistry. Today, all software.
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
The good old days of CD storage
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
When did global technological leadership migrate across the Atlantic?
10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, human capital, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: global technological frontier, growth of knowledge, innovation, Schumpeter, technology diffusion

HT: theatlantic.com/a-short-history-of-american-invention/385279/ via Mikko Packalen and Jay Bhattacharya
Facebook has come a long way in 11 years
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in technological progress Tags: creative destruction, Facebook, innovation
HT: allday.com
Grand Canyon, 1914
08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
A Report Card for Humanity: 1900-2050
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, health economics, technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
January 1984: First Mac goes on sale
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment




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