How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

科技进步的终结:技术、创新与国家命运

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2025-10-21

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Contributor(s): Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Jane Gingrich, Professor Michael Storper | How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • Good evening and welcome to the London School of Economics, those of you in the room.

  • and online for tonight's event.

  • Tonight's event is hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment and co-hosted with the program on Cohesive Capitalism.

  • And it's also part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences,

  • which is a series of events which we'll be carrying on until November on bringing the social sciences to the world.

  • So my name's Neil Lee.

  • I'm a professor of economic geography here at the LSE.

  • And I'm really pleased to be welcome, well, to welcome an all-star panel to talk about this book.

  • So we've got Karl Benedict Frey from the University of Oxford, Jane Gingrich and Michael Storper.

  • And we're here to discuss Karl's book,

  • How Progress Ends Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations.

  • Now, Karl is one of the,

  • I'd say he's probably one of the leading scholars of technology and innovation in the world today.

  • So we're really, really pleased that he could come here and talk about his book.

  • He's Dieter Schwartz,

  • Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Martin City Fellow at the Oxford Martin School,

  • both at the University of Oxford.

  • He's a fellow at Mansfield College, the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford,