Ridley, New recipes

As Paul Romer puts it: ‘Every generation has perceived the limits to growth that finite resources and undesirable side effects would pose if no new recipes or ideas were discovered. And every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new recipes and ideas. We consistently fail to grasp how many ideas remain to be discovered.’ (...)
Technologies I cannot even conceive will be commonplace and habits I never knew human beings needed will be routine.