It seems that lots of contemporary innovations are like this and GDP becomes and ever less reliant way of tracking scientific progress.
If nobody bothered to create a better measure of scientific progress, I would like to create it or to help someone create it or to at least figure out what prevents us from creating it.
I’m also super interested in this and would love to hear Jason’s thoughts.
As Dietrich Vollrath often points out, technological progress does not necessarily lead to an increase in GDP and sometimes actually lowers it: https://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/246/
It seems that lots of contemporary innovations are like this and GDP becomes and ever less reliant way of tracking scientific progress.
If nobody bothered to create a better measure of scientific progress, I would like to create it or to help someone create it or to at least figure out what prevents us from creating it.
I don’t really have great thoughts on metrics, as I indicated to @monadica. Happy to chat about it sometime! It’s a hard problem.