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Comment by lisa_henderson

You won't find anything in any set of economic statistics that can offer the slightest justification for this statement:

"The JavaScript ecosystem nowadays is responsible for the global revolution the same way steam engines were responsible for the first industrial revolution"

That is ridiculous. Here is reality:

1.) Labor productivity has been in long-term decline, though computers did cause a temporary surge in the 1990s. See the charts in this post:

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/monday-smackdown-repu...

2.) Economic growth remains sluggish, especially compared to the post war boom of 1945-1973.

3.) The railroads sparked a massive investment boom. The only time computer technologies came close to triggering a similar boom was during the 1990s.

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