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Boom times are back in Silicon Valley. Office parks along Highway 101 are once again adorned with the insignia of hopeful start-ups. Rents are soaring, as is the demand for fancy vacation homes in resort towns like Lake Tahoe, a sign of fortunes being amassed. The Bay Area was the birthplace of the semiconductor industry and the computer and internet companies that have grown up in its wake. Its wizards provided many of the marvels that make the world feel futuristic, from touch-screen phones to the instantaneous searching of great libraries to the power to pilot a drone thousands of miles away. The revival in its business activity since 2010 suggests progress is motoring on.

So it may come as a surprise that some in Silicon Valley think the place is stagnant, and that the rate of innovation has been slackening for decades. Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, and the first outside investor in Facebook, says that innovation in America is “somewhere between dire straits and dead”. Engineers in all sorts of areas share similar feelings of disappointment. And a small but growing group of economists reckon the economic impact of the innovations of today may pale in comparison with those of the past.

[ … ]

Across the board, innovations fueled by cheap processing power are taking off. Computers are beginning to understand natural language. People are controlling video games through body movement alone—a technology that may soon find application in much of the business world. Three-dimensional printing is capable of churning out an increasingly complex array of objects, and may soon move on to human tissues and other organic material.

An innovation pessimist could dismiss this as “jam tomorrow”. But the idea that technology-led growth must either continue unabated or steadily decline, rather than ebbing and flowing, is at odds with history. Chad Syverson of the University of Chicago points out that productivity growth during the age of electrification was lumpy. Growth was slow during a period of important electrical innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; then it surged.

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Entry #25981 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Spain
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prodigios
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no se ha detenido.
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—aunque creciente—
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Buena elec​ción de pu​ntuación
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Lester Tattersall
Lester Tattersall
United Kingdom
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Bahía de San Francisco
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Iris María Gabás Blanco
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Cornelia Litzmann
Entry #26917 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Colombian
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Buenísimo,​ ¿supongo ​que se ref​iere a la ​espuma del​ mar? Aunq​ue la conn​otación es​ opuesta, ​encaja per​fectamente​ con el re​sto del es​crito.
Diego Rivera
área de la Bahía de San Francisco
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su último suspiro y la muerte».
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Adriana Uribe
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Los tiempos de bonanza
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Jesús Melcón Vega
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enclaves
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magos que trabajan allí
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que cada vez cuenta con más adeptos
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Vuelven tiempos de prosperidad
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Gina Berta
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como del futuro
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inactivo
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Gaby Vélez Schemankewitz
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que hay un estancamiento
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una variedad de objetos
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puede continuar de manera constante o deteriorarse progresivamente, se contradice con la historia
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Adriana Uribe
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está en marcha
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Omar Escobar
Omar Escobar
Nicaragua
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dando sus frutos
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Iris María Gabás Blanco
castillos en el aire
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Iris María Gabás Blanco
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lago
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Al fin uno​ que no lo​ dejó en i​nglés
Diego Rivera
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tan solo con sus movimientos corporales
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Bien logra​do
GEORGE ROTKER
Un pesimista respecto a la innovación podría descartar estos hechos al considerarlos como una falsa promesa
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Adriana Uribe
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fluctuar
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Leopoldo Gurman
Leopoldo Gurman
United States
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A la vera
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Mariana Gutierrez
desde los teléfonos con pantallas táctiles y la búsqueda instantánea en enormes bibliotecas, hasta la posibilidad de pilotear un dron a miles de kilómetros de distancia
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Mariana Gutierrez
En los más diversos sectores hay ingenieros que comparten su desilusión
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bien resue​lto
Mariana Gutierrez
puede ser insignificante frente al de las anteriores
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bien resue​lto
Mariana Gutierrez
toman impulso por doquier
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buena solu​ción
Mariana Gutierrez
: fue
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Bien resue​lto.
Mariana Gutierrez
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más vanguardista
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región
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un espectro cada vez más complejo
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un brindis al sol
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genios creadores
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Mariana Gutierrez
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Los alquileres están subiendo como la espuma
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bahía de San Francisco
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toque futurista
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se están produciendo avances
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asequible
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desde teléfonos con pantalla táctil hasta la búsqueda instantánea de grandes bibliotecas y el poder de pilotar un dron a miles
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Mariana Gutierrez
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hoy no, mañana
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Para un pú​blico espa​ñol, puede​ funcionar​ como alus​ión al pro​grama de T​V de José ​Mota
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vacas gordas
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Diego Rivera
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la bahía de San Francisco
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abaratamiento de la capacidad de procesamiento
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impresión 3D
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centros
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Correcto
Diego Rivera
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privilegiadas mentes allí congregadas
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Original, ​aunque lo ​de "congre​gadas" no ​es óptimo
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avanza a toda máquina
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fluctuar
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bajo la estela
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Adriana Uribe
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castillos en el aire
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fluctuar
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centros empresariales
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Gloria Samperio
artífices
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Iris María Gabás Blanco
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start-ups
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Ahora es c​omún usar ​este térmi​no moderno​, entendid​o por toda​ la gente ​del rubro.
Cristina Heraud-van Tol
ugares turísticos
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La bonanza
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Diego Rivera
viento en popa
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Diego Rivera
“un sueño imposible”
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Diego Rivera
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uno de los fundadores de PayPal
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accurate
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de San Francisco
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genios
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una situación desesperada
Flows well
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palidece en comparación con
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espejismo
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Entry #26104 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Colombian
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Colombia
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se están encendiendo los motores del progreso
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MarinaM
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Ignacio Mogni
Ignacio Mogni
Argentina
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detrás de todo
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Original, ​aunque mej​orable: qu​e están de​trás de to​do esto
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Silicon Valley prospera de nuevo
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Alejado de​l original​ e idiomát​ico
Jesús Melcón Vega
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señal de que se están amasando grandes fortunas
Flows well
Tampoco es​ necesario​ el gerund​io aquí. S​eñal de qu​e se amasa​n grandes ​fortunas e​s más conc​iso.
Mariana Gutierrez
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un pequeño pero creciente
Flows well
Ingrid Schulz
languidecer
Good term selection
Diego Rivera
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abaratamiento
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Maria Camen
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La impresión tridimensional
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Adriana Uribe
repuntó
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MarinaM
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promesas del mañana
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Stephen McCann
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Jennifer Laughlin
Jennifer Laughlin
United States
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