Patterns of technological progress: A Predictability-Based Perspective

TL;DR

This paper explores emerging patterns in technological progress by comparing historical and modern trends through a predictability-based lens, highlighting shifts like automation and collaboration.

Contribution

It introduces a predictability-based framework to analyze and compare technological patterns across different eras, emphasizing new emerging trends.

Findings

Identification of new technological patterns in the Internet age

Comparison of historical and modern technological trends

Analysis of predictability in technological evolution

Abstract

The paper tries to identify new emerging patterns in the context of technological progress. Just as industrialization is associated with rationalization, mechanization, and automation, the Internet age is associated with computer models, embedded knowledge, and collaboration. Comparison among patterns is highlighted and analysis is done from predictability-based perspective.