Netherlands Fact of the Day

Japan, reinventing its agriculture, has accomplished abruptly and rapidly what the United States did somewhat more gradually and Western Europe more gradually still. It created rural productivity upon a foundation of city productivity. There is no inherent reason why this cannot be done by other nations even more rapidly. Modern productive agricult

the United States, for example, using this process to make the nitrogen-based fertilizer urea would raise its cost by more than 20 percent. But…

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Between 1800 and 2020, we reduced the labor needed to produce a kilogram of grain by more than 98 percent—and we reduced the share of the country’s population engaged in agriculture by the same large margin.[50] This provides a useful guide to the profound economic transformations that would have to take place with any retreat of agricultural mecha

Department of Defense buys advanced low-emissions fuels and materials; the National Science Foundation funds research; the Department of Transportation…

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(i) For the first time in history, the frontier of technology is reaching the majority of the world’s population. (ii) Technology at a human scale is democratizing personal productivity as never before.

In the Entrepreneurial Age, it takes focus and clear strategic positioning for certain countries such as the US, China, Israel[300] and Estonia[301] to prosper in an economy driven by the multitude. Meanwhile other countries are still competing in a lesser league because they remain trapped in their focus on legacy industries such as tourism and ag

we get a breakthrough in cheap hydrogen, for example, we might not need to worry as much about…

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