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Transformative technologies reliably attract more investment and infrastructure than they need, and that excess is what speeds their adoption.

Drawn from what Howard Marks said

infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

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  1. Howard Marks

    Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management

    There’s a consistent history of transformational technologies generating excessive enthusiasm and investment, resulting in more infrastructure than is needed and asset prices that prove to have been too high. The excesses accelerate the adoption of the technology in a way that wouldn’t occur in their absence.

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