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In a provocative research paper from a couple of years ago, economist Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in the USA asked if economic growth has essentially come to an end (http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315). He wondered if the rapid economic and technological growth of the past few centuries, so familiar to us today, might turn out to have been only a temporary thing. It might largely be over, despite current belief in the wildly creative and ‘disruptive’ nature of today’s high-tech industry.