I bet that Peter pretends not to care about taxes. But that is really besides the point. All I am trying to say is that tech is hardly failing us in the drastic

I bet that Peter pretends not to care about taxes. But that is really besides the point. All I am trying to say is that tech is hardly failing us in the drastic way Peter supposes it is. My point is not to delay the invention of airplanes, but to focus on the political problems first. Technology and politics are connected - that is Keynesianism is all about and that is what Peter, and you (it seems), fail to understand. The problem with medicare and social security, for example, is not "too few robots" but actually probably too many MRIs and prescription drugs. Not that we shouldn't have MRIs. The political barriers are the hardest ones to jump over, because acts of individual genius are rarely meaningful in a political context. And try mass-producing smartphones (or solar panels) in a world where China and India are regressing towards chaos.