Two heads, are better than one. Three, four, five, six, and into infinity it gradually gets better. Some might be idiots, but eventually a good one comes about, and they do quite a bit, since they exist their ideas of what is possible for the time will manifest. And the world is as we see it today.
Back in the day, there was no internet. I remember the long line ups at the bank waiting to withdraw or cash in. Finding places were done on the phone and asking directions. Shopping around for the best deals was done through word of mouth. Etc.
The birth of individuals always makes life easier. Touch screen is an old idea, those who made it possible and portable came from the masses, and it has been done collectively, as no single person invented today's mobile devices on their own. More people today, life gets easier today. The reason is basic.
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Population, Technological Progress and the Evolution of Innovative Potential
Jason Collins University of Western Australia -UWA Business School
Boris Baer University of Western Australia -Plant Energy Biology
Ernst Juerg Weber University of Western Australia - UWA Business School
Abstract:
We present an evolutionary theory of long-term economic growth in which
technological progress and population growth are driven by the
population size and the innovative potential of the people in the
population. We expand on current theory proposing that population growth
is proportional to population size, due to greater production of ideas,
and submit that technological progress and population growth are also
driven by the accelerating evolution of people with a higher innovative
potential. As a larger population implies a larger number of mutations,
population growth will increase the rate at which innovation-enhancing
traits may emerge. Heritable traits that increase idea development or
productivity increase the fitness of the bearer, increase in frequency
in the population, and drive technological progress. This dual-driver
model of economic growth has a sharper acceleration in population growth
and greater robustness to technological shocks than a model without
human evolution. We also show that as the population size increases,
increases in population size become a relatively more important driver
of the acceleration of technological progress than further increases in
innovative potential.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2284456
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61 Page PDF. That makes 4 educated souls I've preseted for you to 'try' to debunk. You've yet to give me one.