“Whether we look at transportation, energy, commodity production, food production, agro-tech, nanotechnology — that with the exception of computers, we’ve had tremendous slowdown,” he told an audience at Stanford University last month.
“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed,” he went on. “It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years — part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion. And all the engineering disciplines that had to do with stuff have basically been outlawed one by one.” (Read more)