When tracked against the lofty hopes of the 1950s and 1960s, technological progress has fallen short in many domains. This technology stagnation threatens not just our financial markets, but the entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless growth. For the world to thrive in the decades ahead, we must find ways to accelerate the rate of innovation and create a new generation of breakthrough technology companies.

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