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Translation by Abdi Aden (#26792) — Winner

Boom times are back in Silicon Valley. Office parks along Highway 101 are once again adorned with the insignia of hopeful start-ups. Rents are soaring, as is the demand for fancy vacation homes in resort towns like Lake Tahoe, a sign of fortunes being amassed. The Bay Area was the birthplace of the semiconductor industry and the computer and internet companies that have grown up in its wake. Its wizards provided many of the marvels that make the world feel futuristic, from touch-screen phones to the instantaneous searching of great libraries to the power to pilot a drone thousands of miles away. The revival in its business activity since 2010 suggests progress is motoring on.

So it may come as a surprise that some in Silicon Valley think the place is stagnant, and that the rate of innovation has been slackening for decades. Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, and the first outside investor in Facebook, says that innovation in America is “somewhere between dire straits and dead”. Engineers in all sorts of areas share similar feelings of disappointment. And a small but growing group of economists reckon the economic impact of the innovations of today may pale in comparison with those of the past.

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Across the board, innovations fueled by cheap processing power are taking off. Computers are beginning to understand natural language. People are controlling video games through body movement alone—a technology that may soon find application in much of the business world. Three-dimensional printing is capable of churning out an increasingly complex array of objects, and may soon move on to human tissues and other organic material.

An innovation pessimist could dismiss this as “jam tomorrow”. But the idea that technology-led growth must either continue unabated or steadily decline, rather than ebbing and flowing, is at odds with history. Chad Syverson of the University of Chicago points out that productivity growth during the age of electrification was lumpy. Growth was slow during a period of important electrical innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; then it surged.
Waqtiyadii wacnaantaa dib ugu soo noqday Silicon Valley. Beero xafiiseedka ku dhereran Haloosiga 101 ayaa mar labaad lagu qurxiyay astaanta bilawyo cusub. Kirooyinkii kor bay u kaceen, waa sida uu yahay dalabka guryaha tamashlaynta ee xalladda leh ee magaalooyinka nasashada sida lake Tahoe, astaan muujinaysa hanti la aruurshay. Bay Area waa meeshii ay ka dhalatay sancada semiconductor-ku iyo kombuyuutarka iyo shirkadihii interneedka ee koray waageedii. Saaxiriinteedaa waxay keeneen wacdaro badan kuwaas oo adduunka dareensiiyay inuu aayo leeyahay, laga bilaabo shaashadaha taabashada ee telafoonnada ilaa goobitaanka maktabadaha oo isla markiiba ilaa awoodda duulinta daroonka kumaakun mayl. dib-u-noolaanta hawlaheeda ganacsi tan iyo 2010 waxay tilmaamaysaa in hore loo socdo.

Haddaba waxaa suurtogal ah inay yaab noqoto in qaar jooga Silicon Valley ay u fakaraan in meeshu fadhiid tahay, iyo in qaddarkii maamintu tobonnaan sano gabaabsi aha. Peter Thiel, yagleelihii PayPal , oo ah maalgeliyihii dibedda ee Facebook, wuxuu leeyahay maamintii Ameerika waxay ku sugan tahay "meel u dhaxeysa dhimasho iyo ciriiri".
Injineerada dhammaan aagagga kala duwan waxay qabaan dareen lamida oo ididiilo-xumo ah.

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Golaha dhexdiisa, maaminnada ka shidaal qaadanaya awoodda habaynta ee jaban baa kacaansan. Kombuyuutaradii waxay bilaabayaan inay fahmaan afka caadiga. Dadkii waxay ku xakamaynayaan ciyaaraha fiidiyowga dhaqdhaqaaqa oogada oo kaliya.-farsamo ay dhici karto in dhawaan ku dhaqankeedu si weyn uga hirgalo caalam ganacsiga. Daabacaadda seddex geesleyda waxay kari kartaa inay sii kordhaysa u hombooriso walxo adadag oo xiriira, waxaana dhici karta inay dhawaan u gudubto dhanka hilibka aadanaha iyo walxaha kale ee dabiiciga.

Balaahoodaha maamintu wuxuu middaan ka dhigi karaa "macmacaanka burrito".
laakiin fidradda ah in koritaanka ay farsamadu hoggaaminayso ay tahay inay sii socoto iyadoon is dhimin ama ay si joogto ah hoos ugu dhacdo, intay geli lahayd xaalad gabaabsi iyo burqasho ah, waxay kadhan tahay taariikhda. Chad Syveson oo ka tirsan Jaamacadda Chicago wuxuu tilmaamayaa koritaanka wax-saarku intii lagu Jiro waagii danabaynta wuxuu ahaa boodboodaa. koritaanku waa wuu gaabainaayay intii lagu jiray xilligii maaminnadii danabka ee doorka ahaa ee ragaalkii qarniyadii 19-aad iyo 20-aad; kadibna kor buu u kacay.


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