Progress used to run in several industries at once and now runs in one, which is what the slowdown actually consists of.

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• AI has accelerated the pace of development but not the pace of business, and that mismatch will become more and more apparent. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026
• Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it. JCJason Crawford12 Sept 2020
• For the whole of human history the bottleneck on progress has been getting a group of smart people together around a shared goal. AWAlexandr Wang29 Jul 2026
• Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed SAScott Alexander1 Jan 2014
• Technology has changed, but how companies are run has not. BCBrian Chesky25 Jan 2018

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