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SUMMARY:Book talk - 'How Progress Ends: Technology\, Innovation\, And The 
 Fate Of Nations' - Professor Carl Frey (Oxford Internet Institute)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251015T170000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251015T180000
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DESCRIPTION:In How Progress Ends\, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conve
 ntional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For
  most of human history\, stagnation was the norm\, and even today progress
  and prosperity in the world’s largest\, most advanced economies—the U
 nited States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate 
 why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward\, Frey offers a r
 emarkable and fascinating journey across the globe\, spanning the past 1\,
 000 years\, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the 
 wake of rapid technological change.\n\nBy examining key historical moments
 \, from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI\, Frey shows why te
 chnological shifts have shaped\, and sometimes destabilized\, entire civil
 izations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past\, 
 such as Song China\, the Dutch Republic\, and Victorian Britain\, ultimate
 ly lost their innovative edge\, why some modern nations such as Japan had 
 periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation\, and why planned economies
  like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey unco
 vers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the ex
 ploration of new technologies\, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. W
 hen institutions fail to adapt to technological change\, stagnation inevit
 ably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy
  can nations innovate and grow over the long term—findings that have wor
 rying implications for the United States\, Europe\, China\, and other econ
 omies today.\n\nThrough a rich narrative that weaves together history\, ec
 onomics\, and technology\, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the fut
 ure requires us to draw the right lessons from the past. \nSpeakers:\nProf
 essor Carl Frey (Oxford Internet Institute)
LOCATION:Oxford Martin School (Lecture Theatre (and Online))\, 34 Broad St
 reet OX1 3BD
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ab4732bf-43e3-4777-9455-930412421e9f/
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