Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

We need hard science, not software, to power our post-pandemic recovery

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par Wim Naudé, Professor of Economics, University College Cork

Ten years ago, PayPal founder Peter Thiel condensed the growing sense of disappointment in new technologies down to just nine words. “We wanted flying cars,” he wrote, “instead we got 140 characters”.

That these words still ring true a decade later shows just how far short of expectations new technologies have fallen. To drive growth in a post-pandemic world, we should remember that real economic progress has in the past been driven by hard science – not flashy consumer gadgetry.

For years, hopes…

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