This will be the topic for my talk at DLD New York this coming Thursday. Here is the rough outline. If anyone has data to contribute I would much appreciate it since I am admittedly long on anecdotes and short on statistics. 1. Disappearance of growth. Here I will talk about how GDP is increasingly a bad measure for economic growth as we are moving to a world with lots of positive externalities. For instance, as Khan Academy grows it will reduce the number of traditional textbooks sold. That ...
