Origins of Technology

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics

A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth

If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up. That is, economic growth was pretty flat for millennia, and then, around 1800, it points upward toward the sky.

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Economics Nobel Prize awarded for explaining innovation-driven growth

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Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers who probed business innovation

American Enterprise Institute

History of Technology: Cheaper, Cleaner, Easier

Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program. I team teach with my friend Mark Witte, and my ...

Wall Street Journal

The World Wide Web Turns 30: A History of the Internet Technology

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...

Live Science on MSN

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

insider.si.edu

Agency history, 1885-1995

United States National Museum Section of Transportation and Civil Engineering United States National Museum Department of Arts and Industries United States National Museum Section of Transportation ...

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