Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
Source: Github.io· Matt Clancy· August 2, 2026
One line of evidence that AI might lead to explosive economic growth is the precedent set by the Industrial Revolution. For hundreds of years — 1252 to 1652, to be precise — the compound annual growth rate of per capita real GDP in the UK was around 0.07%. It…
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