How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations
About this event
Carl Frey talks to Linda Yueh about technology's impact on progress and national development. An examination of how technological advancement affects economic growth, innovation cycles, and the future of nations in a digital age.
Why you should come
AI-powered• Hear Carl Frey explain why institutional flexibility drives America’s technological leadership
• Learn from Linda Yueh how historical economic crashes inform current innovation policy
• Understand the 'Technology Trap' and how AI requires a balance of discovery and scaling
Event Highlights
- •Analysis of why some societies flourish technologically while others falter
- •Examination of the 'fragile balance' between decentralized discovery and centralized scaling
- •Discussion on how AI and MRNA vaccines impact institutional flexibility
- •Insights into how bureaucratic control can stifle global innovation
- •Conversation between a leading AI historian and a former BBC chief business correspondent
Speakers
Carl Frey
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute
Linda Yueh
Oxford University economics fellow and former BBC chief business correspondent
Programme
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
A one-hour talk and conversation between Carl Frey and Linda Yueh regarding the future of innovation.
Organized by: Oxford Literary Festival