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Now in the story that has this major through-line that we've been following, the next thing that happens that's really important is a guy named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek de Solla Price] starts to calculate that science is on an exponential trajectory, and rather than thinking that that's a great thing, he starts to understand that anything on an exponential trajectory can't really go on, because it's going to burn itself out. And if science is the original seed corn, if you will, of technology, and technology of economics, then effectively what's going to happen in science is going to percolate through a chain through technology and into the economy with a potential stagnation coming. Now, he started to arrive at these ideas, I think, at Yale in the late 1950s.