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How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

Update: 2025-10-21
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Contributor(s): Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Jane Gingrich, Professor Michael Storper | How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends.
To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.
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How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Jane Gingrich, Professor Michael Storper