Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Cowen , Tyler (2011-01-25), The Great Stagnation, Dutton Adult, Retrieved on 2012-01-04
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    04 JAN 2012

     We Have Been Living Off Low-Hanging Fruit

    We are failing to understand why we are failing. All of these problems have a single, little noticed root cause: We have been living off low-hanging fruit for at least three hundred years. … Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are more bare than we would like to think. That’s it. That is what has gone wrong.
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    Folksonomies: technology progress
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    And the fruits of what we can discover technologically easily are vanishing, leading to a plateau.

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