I really don't see his perspective on a lot of these. I don’t think we’re living in an incredibly fast technological age. - ..speaking on innovation in fields outside of computing. I agree that the pace of tangible improvement in some fields (eg construction) has not been as fast as others, but a lot of things have been changing fast. Think of simple manufactured goods. Chairs, plates, etc. The labour efficiency or j…
Due to globalization, which one (as Thiel does) could argue is not a sustainable source of intensive progress, but just basic labour arbitrage with an expiry date and zero sum implications long term.