The intervening years have seen an explosion of technological innovation that has carried America’s general productivity growth back up to its pre-slowdown levels. Indeed, today the US economy is standing on the brink of biotechnological and, perhaps, nanotechnological revolutions of vast scale and scope.
那是过去的事情了，下面要说的是现在。在这十五年期间，我们见证了技术革新大爆炸把美国总的生产力增长速度推回到减速前的水平。的确，今天美国经济正处在生物科技的边缘，或者说是大规模、大范围的纳米科技的边缘。但缩减社会性支出的呼声依旧持续。