Why does it feel like technological progress has slowed to an abrupt stop?

Are we shelving all of our cool new tricks for future Capitalistic extraction?

Is there a bottle neck in processing capacity / shortage of labor?

If it’s worth your time, I’d like to talk about the production of graphene-like materials and how we could implement them in a smarter society.

(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nn400731g#)

I currently operate a medical cannabis business and am fundraising to start a hemp processing facility. I understand the current problems/solutions for scaling hemp to a national scale. Part of the problem is the industries deep entanglement in Washington politics.

Should you decide to indulge me, join me in imagining a world without Washington DC, where capital allocation is made purely for technical innovation, and let’s discuss.