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The 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli Dourado

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Episode • Apr 2, 2021 • 53m
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Episode: The 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli Dourado
Pub date: 2021-03-23

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Eli Dourado (@elidourado) of the Center for Growth and Opportunity, joins Erik on this episode to discuss:

- Why Eli wants to radically increase GDP per capita and the current bottlenecks to achieving that.

- Why he thinks the 2020s will be the decade of atoms.

- Why amazing scientific breakthroughs like CRISPR haven't translated into new products or treatments.

- Why he's excited about geothermal power and how it could change geopolitics if its potential is realized.

- His breakdown of his position as a technological optimist and cultural pessimist.

- Where he agrees or disagrees with Tyler Cowen, Bryan Caplan, Peter Thiel, and Samuel Hammond.

- Why entrepreneurs shouldn't shy away from areas with regulatory risk, since "that's where all the action happens."

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