Innovations such as ATMs or the Internet enhance this process, leading to greater output from fewer inputs.

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In fact, the essence of growth is creating more value with fewer inputs (or at lower input cost).

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This, as Adam Smith so boringly pointed out about the pin factory, means that we can gain greater outputs through fewer inputs.

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Essentially, do we farm extensively, using fewer inputs and more land, thus allowing some wildlife to co-exist on the same land as our farming?

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The second generation of bioenergy crops has the potential to produce more energy on poorer soils and with fewer inputs than any crops we use for energy now.

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Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.

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