A timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation.
“Read this book for the alternative history of our age.”
—Peter Thiel, investor and author of Zero to One
“A must-read for those who seek to build the future.”
—Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
From the Moon landing to the dawning of the atomic age, the decades prior to the 1970s were characterized by the routine invention of transformative technologies at breakneck speed. By comparison, ours is an age of stagnation. Median wage growth has slowed, inequality and income concentration are on the rise, and scientific research has become increasingly expensive and incremental.
Why are we unable to replicate the rate of progress of past decades? What can we do to reinvigorate innovation?
In Boom, Byrne Hobart and…
