To be clear, I don’t mean to claim that we should give special importance to current growth rates in robotics in particular. I just picked that as an example. But I do think it’s a relevant example, primarily due to the gradual nature of the abilities that robots are surpassing, and the consequent gradual nature of their employment.
Unlike fusion, which is singular in its relevant output (energy), robots produce a diversity of things, and robots cover a wide range of growth-relevant skills that are gradually getting surpassed already. It is this gradual nature of their growth-related abilities that makes them relevant, imo — because they are already doing a lot of work and already contributing a fair deal to the growth we’re currently seeing. (To clarify, I mostly have in mind industrial robots, such as these, the future equivalents of which I also expect to be important to growth; I’d agree that it wouldn’t be so relevant if we were only talking about some prototypes of robots that don’t yet contribute meaningfully to the economy.)
To be clear, I don’t mean to claim that we should give special importance to current growth rates in robotics in particular. I just picked that as an example. But I do think it’s a relevant example, primarily due to the gradual nature of the abilities that robots are surpassing, and the consequent gradual nature of their employment.
Unlike fusion, which is singular in its relevant output (energy), robots produce a diversity of things, and robots cover a wide range of growth-relevant skills that are gradually getting surpassed already. It is this gradual nature of their growth-related abilities that makes them relevant, imo — because they are already doing a lot of work and already contributing a fair deal to the growth we’re currently seeing. (To clarify, I mostly have in mind industrial robots, such as these, the future equivalents of which I also expect to be important to growth; I’d agree that it wouldn’t be so relevant if we were only talking about some prototypes of robots that don’t yet contribute meaningfully to the economy.)