01-20に読んで、聞いた記事
記事の内容：
化ける可能性のある発見が続き、テクノロジーへの投資が続き、受け入れも早い。2020年代も技術革新は続く。
所感：
政府の役割も重要。法整備早くしなければ。
知らない単語があった文（Google dictionary）
Productivity growth was lacklustre and the most popular new inventions, the smartphone and social media, did not seem to help much.
Lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired or uninspiring.
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Their malign side-effects, such as the creation of powerful monopolies and the pollution of the public square, became painfully apparent.
Evil in nature or effect; malevolent.
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Promising technologies stalled, including self-driving cars, making Silicon Valley’s evangelists look naive.
(of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.
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Prominent breakthroughs, a tech investment boom and the adoption of digital technologies during the pandemic are combining to raise hopes of a new era of progress: optimists giddily predict a “roaring Twenties”.
Important; famous.
[Adverb] In a giddy manner.
ADJ If you feel giddy, you feel unsteady and think that you are about to fall over, usually because you are not well. (=dizzy)
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It is not just that workers have taken to videoconferencing and consumers to e-commerce—significant as those advances are, for example to easing the constraints on jobseeking posed by housing shortages.
A limitation or restriction.
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As societies get richer they spend a greater share of their income on labour-intensive services, such as restaurant meals, in which productivity growth is meagre because automation is hard.
(of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality.
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Although the private sector will ultimately determine which innovations succeed or fail, governments also have an important role to play.
Cause (something) to occur in a particular way; be the decisive factor in.
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The state also has a big influence over how fast innovations diffuse through the economy.
Spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
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If governments rise to the challenge, then faster growth and higher living standards will be within their reach, allowing them to defy the pessimists. The 2020s began with a cry of pain but, with the right policies, the decade could yet roar.
Openly resist or refuse to obey.
A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.
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