descriptive claim
Historically, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and computers produced measurable macroeconomic productivity impacts roughly one to three decades after the underlying technological capability first emerged, because complementary inventions, capital investment, worker retraining, and organizational/process redesign are slow-moving.
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confidence 0.85
Evidence (1)
supports (1)
- Exploring How AI Will Impact the Economy expert_estimateweight0.70
locator: Most Studies Estimate Peak Impact Being Some Years Away section
“Historically, general-purpose technologies that can be implemented widely across an economy—like electricity or computers—had a measurable impact on productivity around one to three decades after the technological capability emerged.”