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[Rawnoc]

Answer -- did anybody see what grew the economy in each of the 10 years of the last 200 before it happened?

I would never have been able to see it. I remember in 1993 being told for the first time about this thing called "the information superhighway" and "electronic mail" and even after being explained what it is I thought to myself "WTF is that and who gives a shit?"

The next driver of huge growth could come in the form of cheap energy.....or a new tech we can't dream of nor understand its usefulness. It could be some new form of transportation. It could be some new material. That's what seems to have driven economic growth in the last 200 years -- some new tech, new form of transportation, new material (or vast discovery of an "old" commodity"), or some new way to get lots of energy cheap. All of this was created by capitalism and the selfish motivation of profit to invent/discover this stuff.

The next big thing in tech or transportation is probably being worked on in somebody garage as you read this. Energy or material in somebody's lab and that's the wild card.