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In 1998, Paul Krugman predicted the internet's impact on the economy would be no greater than the fax machine's
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A Nobel Prize really makes you stop questioning yourself huh?
It's not a real Nobel Prize, it's a Bank of Sweden prize and it's a better reflection of Swedish economic politics than true innovation in the field (probably because economics is more applied philosophy than science).
Your mind, too, will start to slip someday.