Will that technological growth and new interconnectedness tear people apart or bring them together?
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Morton predicts that the hubs for technological growth will be in places like China and South Korea--rather than India and Brazil.
So it should come as no surprise that neither the Legislative body nor the Executive Branch intuitively understand how entrepreneurs think or how best to drive technological growth.
If we miss this transition, we risk losing the innovation that has powered the past decade of economic and technological growth, and we leave an entire generation unprepared to meet and overcome the challenges they will face.
For Silicon Valley to remain the technological growth engine that continues to awe the rest of the world, we must balance the need to regulate and report with the even more dire need to grow and create jobs.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
In the past, the Pentagon was an engine of economic growth and technological innovation.
Demand for infrastructure is set to increase, fuelled by population growth, technological progress, climate change and congestion.
Our country needs a modern immigration policy that further fosters this culture to help spur continued technological innovation and economic growth.
Economies can get truly richer only through increased productivity growth, either from technological advances or from more efficient production thanks to international trade.
And with innovation now accounting for more than half of productivity growth, the more technological disruption there is around the world the better it will be for every one.
Despite increased corporate engagement in all levels of energy security and sustainability efforts, the state plays a disproportionate role in shaping the form and development of alternative energy technologies due to the significant technological and financial needs underpinning their growth.
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Miller is concerned, however, that Chinese companies will fall behind the curve, as the strongest avenues of growth will be paved by technological development in America.
But with the exploding growth of the Internet and related technological advances, new methods have been developed to make copyright piracy easier.
Indeed, renewables development is now reshaping global economic security calculations, offering new catalysts for growth and providing a springboard for technological development.
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Unlike other areas identified by the Economist, where technological process has indeed slowed, and economic growth has gone along with it, there may be tremendous potential remaining in the electric energy industry precisely because it has remained relatively bottled up and stagnant for most of the last 100 years.
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In this new technological world, data is the raw material for growth.
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The only way technological progress can lift the masses above 0.8% growth is if we match these great inventions.
We also discussed the potential to expand our cooperation on behalf of economic growth, trade and investment, as well as technological innovation, and I look forward to discussing these issues further when President Medvedev visits the United States later this year, because there is much we can do on behalf of our security and prosperity if we continue to work together.
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This growth reflects increases in resource demand, government regulations and technological advances.
Saylor convincingly argues the growth of mobile technology marks not just another step in technological miniaturization, but an important evolution of software becoming an omnipresent force in our life in the coming years.
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As global leaders come together in Rio to lay the foundations for a more sustainable future, we must remind them that green growth cannot be achieved by economic and political agreements or technological solutions alone.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: Do you realize that economists say that as much as half of our nation's economic growth in the last half-century is directly due to technological progress, fueled by research and development, the kind of research and development you can do right here?
Underlying the steady growth of the multinational was the global push towards privatisation and rapid technological change.
The problem is the potentially explosive growth in demand for transport worldwide and the relative paucity of obvious technological fixes.
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Even if Cowen is wrong about the pitch of the technological plateau and the severity of income stagnation, he has nonetheless put radical innovation and economic growth back on the map.
Musk likened the significance of the launch to the growth of the commercial Internet -- from its underpinnings as a government initiative to the technological, economic and cultural engine it is today.
This conclusion is further supported by my own research into the growth challenges confronting not only the U.S. but all advanced economies operating at the technological frontier.
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