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12  Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky and James A. Evans, “Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’
               Research Strategies”, American Sociological Review, October 2015 80: 875-908
               http://www.knowledgelab.org/docs/1302.6906.pdf

               13
                  Mike Ramsay and Douglas Cacmillan, “Carnegie Mellon Reels After Uber Lures Away
               Researchers”, Wall Street Journal, 31 May 2015
               http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582

               14
                  World Economic Forum, Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact, Survey
               Report, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, September 2015.
               15
                  For more details on the survey methodology, please refer to pages 4 and 39 of the report referenced
               in the previous note.

               16  UK Office of National Statistics, “Surviving to Age 100”, 11 December 2013,
               http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lifetables/historic-and-projected-data-from-the-period-and-cohort-life-
               tables/2012-based/info-surviving-to-age-100.html

               17
                  The Conference Board, Productivity Brief 2015, 2015.
               According to data compiled by The Conference Board data, global labour productivity growth in the
               period 1996-2006 averaged 2.6%, compared to 2.1% for both 2013 and 2014.
               https://www.conference-board.org/retrievefile.cfm?filename=The-Conference-Board-2015-
               Productivity-Brief.pdf&type=subsite

               18
                  United States Department of Labor, “Productivity change in the nonfarm business sector, 1947-
               2014”, Bureau of Labor Statistics
               http://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm
               19
                  United States Department of Labor, “Preliminary multifactor productivity trends, 2014”, Bureau of
               Labor Statistics, 23 June 2015
               http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod3.nr0.htm

               20  OECD, “The Future of Productivity”, July 2015. http://www.oecd.org/eco/growth/The-future-of-
               productivity-policy-note-July-2015.pdf

               For a short discussion on decelerating US productivity, see: John Fernald and Bing Wang, “The Recent
               Rise and Fall of Rapid Productivity Growth”, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 9 February
               2015.
               http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2015/february/economic-growth-
               information-technology-factor-productivity/

               21  The economist Brad DeLong makes this point in: J. Bradford DeLong, “Making Do With More”,
               Project Syndicate, 26 February 2015.
               http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/abundance-without-living-standards-growth-by-j--
               bradford-delong-2015-02

               22
                  John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” in Essays in Persuasion,
               Harcourt Brace, 1931.
               23
                  Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs
               to Computerisation?”, Oxford Martin School, Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology,
               University of Oxford, 17 September 2013.
               http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf





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