Rather, our economic future is inextricably linked to our ability to come up with more technological breakthroughs that equal the Internet in magnitude.
wow, that's a tall order. the internet was under development and proliferating during some 20 years before anyone even started to think of it as something that could drive an economic boom (in the early/mid 90's).
something of this magnitude is not going to spring fully formed from zeus's head ... and is there anything like this under development now? (and, of course, the internet and its growth goes hand in hand with semiconductors, moore's law, pc's and so forth ... since, if not for them, the internet would still be what it was in 1994).
