The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.
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Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 109Robert Gilpin
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Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.
Robert Gilpin
Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I always reply in some such words as these: "Dear madam, I decline." And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.
"Come this time, father," he urged lately, "for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six," which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.J. M. Barrie
Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.
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For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
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