3. “people . . . after 45 years of work are not making a
nickel more than they did 45 years ago.”
4.
5. $10.95. Blue-collar compensation was around
$6.00 per hour. It took 1.83 hours to earn the
money to buy your own tool that would let you
do about one calculation per second.
6. Today you can have an Xbox One X for $299
dollars. Blue-collar compensation is now
around $32.00 per hour. It will take you 9.33
hours to earn the money to buy your console.
7. The graphical processing unit (GPU) in this
device runs at 6 teraflops. A teraflop is 1012 or
one million million floating-point operations per
second.
8. For the time it took to work to buy a device in
1975 that could do one calculation you will get
1,174,103,678,930 calculations today.
15. Chapter 8:
Good Laws Are Not Enough
Innovation creates institutions
Culture evolves with innovation
Institutions are what people value
16. Chapter 9:
Corruption Is Not the Problem; It’s a
Solution
People hire corruption to do a job
Innovation creates options to
corruption
17. Chapter 10:
If You Build It, They May Not Come
Infrastructure follows innovation
No innovation, no makkets, no
markets, no sustainable infrastructure
18. Chapter 11 :
From Prosperity Paradox to Prosperity
Process
Innovation looks different
Each country must discover