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Chapter 9 THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY Marco Savioli Copyright 漏 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Addison-Wesley The cutting edge of technology 飪 芦Cutting edge technology禄: new techniques that are just moving out of development and into production. Cutting edge technologies hold great promise for higher productivity, although they are not guaranteed to work (eg quantum computing, gene therapy, 鈥? 飪 With time, technologies that are at the cutting edge become commonplace or even obsolete 飪 The era of rapid technological progress dates back only 250 years in the most advanced countries. Before this period, technological advance was slow and sporadic. Even today, waves of progress alternate with periods of slack technoligical change Copyright 漏 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Addison-Wesley Technological progress before the 18th century 飪 Focus on Europe: not only it is the area for which the best data are available but also it had become the world鈥檚 technology leader by 1700 飪 Growth accounting for such an early period poses problems. The avalable data are quite sparse. Land (肀? played an important role as an input then 饊嫿 1鈭掟€嫿 肀 = 饊€错眿 饊€ 肀 饊嫿 饊仸 = 饊€ 鈫 LADS 鈫 饊仸 = 饊€ +饊嫿肀 鈭掟€嫿饊€ 饊€ 飪 Considering a geographical area of constant size: 肀 = 0 饊€ = 饊仸 +饊嫿饊€ Copyright 漏 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Addison-We