Extrapolation anticipates the rate of technological progress on some occasions, but when it fails to do so it can fail spectacularly.

推论在某些场合能预言技术进步的速度，但当它做不到时，它可能会失败得很惨。

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The technological progress is embodied in changes in allocating of factors, while new production function by factors and change in marginal rate of substitution are basically characteristic of it.

生产要素的配置变化内生着技术进步，而农业技术进步的基本性质表现为由生产要素决定的新的生产函数和要素资源间边际技术替代率发生变动。

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In the dynamic study, China forestry annual growth rate of total factor productivity is 2.9%, mainly due to technological progress.

在动态研究中，我国营林业全要素生产率年均增长速度为2.9%，主要原因为技术进步。

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There are futurists who are far, far too optimistic about the rate of technological progress, and others who are too vastly too pessimistic.

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Billionaire Peter Thiel, for example, argues that despite spectacular advances in computer-related fields, technological progress has actually stalled because the internal combustion engine still rules our highways, the cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971, and the top speed at which people can travel has ceased to improve.

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That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed within three to six years, at its current rate of progress.

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