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GLOBAL FUTURE ANALYSIS


OUTLINERS | HUEBNER


An American physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. According to his research on patent numbers in relation to inhabitant numbers the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. Huebner sees the end of innovation looming dead ahead. His study is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.


Author: Gijs Graafland


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