I think the labour-market effects of technological advancement are slower now than they have been at any time in the last 100 years. The internet and mobile pho

I think the labour-market effects of technological advancement are slower now than they have been at any time in the last 100 years. The internet and mobile phones have large impacts on media-consumption and social dynamics but they aren't dramatically reshuffling the labour force in the same way innovations like the combine-harvester, container-ship, car and washing-machine did every decade between 1900 and 1970. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth